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Wildlife Rehabilitation - Landcare - Student Groups - Horses - Artwork Roy’s Retreat Inc. Roy’s Retreat is just ideal for that.
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is an incorporated body, registered as “Caring for Fauna & Flora”, on land used exclusively for charitable purposes. also has public liability insurance for volunteer workers and any person who wants to learn more about fauna and flora. To release Wildlife back into the wild, it is important for us to have a safe and controlled place. As the land within the leased area hasn’t been burnt for severa

l years, some native animals and birds have come back to this area. Caring for the land (working with bio dynamics) and wildlife has been Barbara’s lifelong passion. Roy’s Retreat invites volunteers to visit during the dry season and educates them in wildlife rehabilitation and land care. We have been able to attract participants from “Rustic Pathways”, a student volunteer and adventure organisation, which come from Australia, North and South America and other countries. They have the opportunity to learn about life in the bush, including solar power and solar cooking, bush buildings, cane toads, w**d eradication, fire prevention, and how to combat erosion. Antilopine kangaroos are the rarest of our big Australian species and are endangered. With a donation you will help to protect these wonderful animals.

01/10/2023

The most beautiful thing you'll see Today! 📷🥰😍❤️

25/09/2023

🎙Episode 41. Chris Henggeler - The backpacker who bought a cattle station

Imagine this: building a pastoral lease from scratch.

I’m talking about walking onto a piece of land that has never been managed or developed – no fences, no man-made waters, no roads – nothing.

Sounds like something from the 1800’s right? A story of the settlers?

Well, this actually happened in the late 1980s, when Chris Henggeler purchased a new pastoral lease in the east Kimberley.

In this episode we find out how a Swiss backpacker ended up purchasing an Austrlalian cattle station, why there’s still no road access to Kachana over 30 years later, and about one mans mission to bring regenerative agriculture to the Kimberley.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or here: https://www.centralstation.net.au/

20/09/2023

our Kakadu Plums, our powder is the whole fruit (seed and flesh) freeze dried and then milled into a powder, making it a true whole fruit superfood.

19/09/2023

Jilungin Bush Tea has a herbal and earthy taste and has long been used for its calming and relaxation benefits. Bruno Dann, Traditional Owner.

18/09/2023

Snow-white is such a funny dog.
I gave the chooks and the ducks some apple pealing and the dog eat with them.
She’s going into the chook house, eats their tucker and when the rock wallabies are coming, she would eat together with them to if I wouldn’t lock her up.

18/09/2023

How beautiful is it to drive around land who is not burnt.

Water, Oasis, lots of water birds on the billabong. So much to see and to hear.

Not the emptiness of burnt land.

17/09/2023

All my citrus and mulberries trees are now protected with chicken wire around it. Had to use wire on the top and bottom and several pickets to make it stronger, because the rock wallabies still tried to get into it to eat the leaves.
Have to protect my citrus trees as they are a very important source of vitamin C.

17/09/2023

The Barbados cherry are flowering. Perhaps I will get some fruit this time. They have a very high content of vitamin C.
The little pond under the veranda, will get used by the frogs to lay there eggs during the wet season. I have a baby stripy fish in there. I have no idea how a spillway fish came into that pond. Perhaps from the pump, pumping water into the tank and the fish came down through the hose?

11/09/2023

06/09/2023

03/09/2023

Have cut one Bauhinia tree. Need more sunlight for the Papaya trees I want to plant in the garden beds behind it.
I will use the stump to attach my antique vice to it. With the garden beds the volunteers have created, she is now on the wrong place.
The Bauhinia tree in the back will only be pruned and I have to watch it that it does not grow that high anymore.
I had to use the big chainsaw to cut that wood.
Mick from Allgear told me to start her without the pressure nob, which works better. It just needs much more power to start it. I can feel my arm muscles 💪 but with so much wood I have to cut around the camp, it will just disappear.

03/09/2023

This is just a start. I will put some more pictures in future posts.
I went for a walk this morning, crossing the Spillway creek into the Stonewall creek.
I wanted to take pictures how much has been burnt on the other side. The Spillway-and Trap paddock and my side of the Stonewall escaped the fire.
We can see the different in the pictures I took 3 years ago and what it looks like today. It’s not that DBCA dropped the firecrackers on the other side of the hill or on the top of the hill. No, directly into my Stonewall Park, which is almost my front door and leaving me surrounded with smoke. I told them not to make fire in the Stonewall but does not make any different.
It is against the law and a criminal offence to lite fires at this time of the year. I could bring them to court…. if I would have enough money.
Roy and I have managed this area for many years, and it thrived with Wildlife. But a lot has disappeared through these resent fires. Although the land is not in such a bad condition, thanks through the movement and frequent disturbance of the area through wild cattle.
It is quite pathetic that I am registered as a Wildlife carer and ‘Land for Wildlife’ for this Department. They rehabilitate and release Wildlife into the wild and at the same time incinerate them.

27/08/2023

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The fact is: yes we can have winter rain, but it has never been like this to be overcast for days and today it is raining non stop. Even in the wet season (I am not talking about artificial-cloud seeding), in a tropical climate, you can have a storm and or a monsoon rain. There are black clouds coming up, a down pore and then the sun comes out again. I remember, one winter rain we had years ago. Two inches of rain pored down within a short time and it was over. We all know, a rain like this at this time of the year is not normal and created by humans and lie to the people that it has something to do with climate change. There is no climate change, only insane so called humans.

The oasis is surrounded by water.

Had to go around it. Leading to the Oasis.

I was driving out with my old car to cut out a tree lying over my track. I had to walk a short distance to arrive at the place. Without the quad bike, I didn’t wanted to carry the heavy chainsaw and I took the bow saw. It takes longer and it is not the work who stuffs me up, it is the heat, the constant sweating 😓 and with the humidity, there is less oxygen in the air.

Enough water around to fill up my jar. Very hot during the day and I was drinking a lot of water.

The Spillway this morning after more than 75mm. That’s where normally the water pump is installed. Haven’t checked this morning how many mm. There was rain during the night. Haven’t seen the sun for 7 days.

How someone can sleep with this noises? Well, Sunni can.

Stonewall meets the Spillway river. The get the Spillway rocks is only further up the bank. There are not big ones, but the medium and small ones have to do the job, otherwise I have to go up hill and get the red ones.

200mm rain in 3 days.

Spillway creek flowing. Fence has disappeared.

The chooks are now together with the ducks. I remember that saying in Switzerland when they were calling people a dumb chook. They are absolutely not dumb. They are quite intelligent with a small brain. I have to teach them absolutely nothing. They just know, compared to the ducks.

The fishermen from the Spillway creek. Morning concert from all my Kookaburras around my camp.

It would need a lot of water coming over the Spillway wall to reach my water pump. The biggest flood ever was in 2001. The spillway was so huge and flowing backwards with big waves. Yes, it can turn into a very dangerous river. I know as I alive here for 29 years. At the same place, the pump was under water and Roy wanted to swim and dive and rescue the pump. I put a big rope around his waist, which has saved his live. He almost got drowned and would have been swept away if I wouldn’t have pulled him in.

It’s the first time this year that the Elephant 🐘 is crying.

Jango. He is back to be the old funny bird

Sunday is just a normal working day, but I can still have a chat with my mate. Working on a new fire break and Jason is removing an old fence. So helpful to have a second person.