Australian Hunter

An indistinct endeavour

Well, it had been a reasonably good period, with plenty of tall green grass, but not a lot of water in dams or through gully systems. That being the case, I thought I would put my trail camera out on my favourite cattle dam to see if there were many deer about.

The property owner gave me permission to go on and put the camera on the remote dam in the back paddock and to take a meat animal if I wished. That would be a bonus for me.

What a difference to the rough boundary track in 12 months. In some places the wheel tracks were so deep from being washed out with rainwater that my car

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