Target rich environment
It’s been one hell of a ride over the past few years and Mother Nature has let us know we’re not in control. Flood, COVID, hailstorms, bushfires, record hot weather events, drought and more cyclones than normal. If you’re a fan of fiction, you’d be forgiven for thinking the apocalypse was near and keeping an eye out for the four horsemen.
To alleviate the pain of it all and to help socially distance, myself, my wife Kath and our daughter Scout figured it was about time to drive out to a local rural property owned by an old Army mate to check the trail cameras we’d left there some three weeks before. Bordered on two sides by a nature reserve that stretches over 15,000 hectares, this place is a magnet for game looking to take advantage of its stock-free open paddocks and the dam which provides the only permanent water for kilometres.
Despite its natural advantages, last time we were up there it was really dry. And while there were plenty of roos around, it had been hard to find traces of goats, pigs or other game anywhere, which was a little surprising. However, the ‘powers that be’ had recently conducted an aerial cull of everything four-legged and feral - so
