Rosegreen is a site for kangaroos to be released after they have been hand reared. The handreared ones are joeys taken from their mothers pouches on the side of the road after the mothers have been killed by traffic. The couple that hand rear the joeys has up to 20 or so at any one time and they require feeding every 4 hours!! What a commitment. Once old enough they are released on Rosegreen and it happens about every 6 weeks or so and we were lucky enough to...

We found a brochure for a station stay and decided to call them - what a great decision that was - we had the best time. Rosegreen is north of Cloncurry and the family have two girls aged 7 and 9 and all the kids got on famously. The girls, Whitney and Maddison showed our kids around and they had a ball. We were treated to some real country hospitality and had a window into their lives. The homestead was built in the 1930s and has almost no glass - all the wi...