...the cattle station.

friday 19th

Had a really early start this morning. Not even the thought of rice pudding for breakers could motivate me to get out of bed! Nevertheless we were on the bus by 7am. The drive to kroombit was really long and tedious. 10 and a half hours and 700km later, we arrived. The whole joint was totally overpriced, first of all there was a $45 charge for the accomodation and meals. Then for the rest of the night they tried to get us to pay for quad biking and horse riding! Dinner wasn't great...chicken soup and pasta with rank vegetables. There wasn't even a pudding to make up for it! The owner of the farm looked like a total psycho and swore after every other word. He then brought out this really old, exhausted farm horse and jibbered on about how we should pay to go horse riding for what seemed like my whole life! He then demonstrated how riding was basically kicking the poo out of a horse until it did what you wanted it to do. It was HORRIBLE, I really had to bite my lip!! Went to bed as soon as possile, couldn't stand being around that man any longer. Felt really home sick :(

Was rudely awoken this morning at..5.50 by the psycho creepy farmer man whacking a massive shovel on our door (did our mention that our bed was actually in a stable.) We had to pack up and check out by 6.45am just to go and do a goat rodeo! I was in such a stormy norman by this point, totally refused to participate in any way. The goats were so distressed and it seemed so cruel to stress them out and isolate them from thier frineds and pretend to brand them. the farmer even kicked one becuase it bucked at him :( !! so instead i sat and read my book for a couple of hours..

Needless to say i HATED the kroombit cattle station..