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A Day in the Life: Fauna Spotter
June 14, 2018Dusty, dirty, long days scrambling over timber, debris and conducting searches through long grass, along tree branches, hollows, logs and bushes for native critters to get them out of harms way, before and after machines have felled timber or cleared land for some construction purpose. Not everyone’s cup of tea, however our BOOBOOK Fauna Spotters… Read more »
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Driving on Outback Dirt Roads
May 31, 2018Driving on our Outback Roads can have its moments. While out and about on a recent trip to a remote part of the Carnarvon Range, Craig snapped these photos through the windscreen (while safely stopped at the side of the road). The sight of a road train approaching at speed on a dirt road and… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – What a Week!
May 24, 2018The past week was a little bit more crazy than usual. It started on the weekend when we took a touch football team from Roma to the Gold Coast for a one day carnival. The Gold Coast is about a six and a half hour drive from Roma. To give our kids access to top… Read more »
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Craig Eddie – Open Sesame
May 10, 2018Remember Open Sesame – the magic words that allowed Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves entry into the treasure filled cave? Well BOOBOOK Ecotours, located in Roma Queensland, has its own version of open sesame. It is snails. Snails, you ask? That seems fairly innocuous, doesn’t it? To the average person the word snails does… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Echidna
May 3, 2018Ever had one of those weekends when you thought you would do “this” and you ended up doing “that”. It happens plenty of times at our place. My son and I were going to do some concreting first thing – cement in some posts for an outdoor gym he was creating. Craig, my husband, was… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Stock Route
April 26, 2018After picking up the kids from school in Roma and travelling home the other day, we had to give way to a different type of traffic – not unusual for Outback Queensland. Thought I would pull over and take a photo. This mob of cattle is travelling the “long Paddock”, which is an Australian colloquial… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Flood Gates
April 19, 2018I ducked out to the farm recently (about 40kms north of Roma, Queensland), it was a beautiful early morning trip to check on the cattle, see how the grass was growing after the beautiful rain we had received and to see how our flood gates were holding up. Flood gates are the fences we put… Read more »
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Life is Never Boring – Mustering
April 12, 2018Recently, I spent a couple of days mustering cattle to treat them for Buffalo Fly. The buffalo fly, Haematobia irritans exigua, is a small biting fly 3.5 – 4 mm long. They feed off cattle and buffalo (hence their name), and cause irritation which can result in reduced production, if cattle are heavily infested. They… Read more »
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Hot Temps bring Reptiles to Life in Roma
February 22, 2018The last few weeks have been very busy with reptile relocations for our team here at Boobook. This was due to the dry and very hot (over 40 degrees Celsius) conditions we were experiencing in the Roma Region. Here’s a few tidbits from our jobs: The little fellow above is an Eastern Bearded Dragon and… Read more »
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What are those Little Red Flying Foxes?
October 19, 2017By Scott Akins-Sellar, Senior Fauna Spotter Catcher, BOOBOOK. Many people travelling through Roma and Outback Queensland during Spring may notice the presence of fruit bats not present at other times of the year. These are Little Red Flying Foxes (Pteropus scapulatus), and are a bit different from the species of flying foxes on the coast… Read more »
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