From the Captain!

Things have been fairly quiet on the blogging front of late… the KEFL crew have been extremely busy with their traineeships, school work, TAFE and Agriculture training.

We have just come back from our last stint out at Gibb River Station – a memorable and amazing experience for all involved. I am so very proud of all the KEFL students on the tremendous amount of effort and time put into making Gibb River Station a functioning station again. Some of their achievements include:

• ·      Over 45km of fencing – barb wire and plain wire fencing
• ·      Building a holding pen and a temporary cattle yard
• ·      Improving the existing permanent cattle yard
• ·      Building and installing 7 flood gates
• ·      Participating in two musters – one with helicopters, one on foot and in cars
• ·      Putting 480 large cattle through the crush – de-horning, castrating, branding, ear tagging and marking
• ·      Drafting and training 35 Weiner heifers, steers and bulls – than using the cradle to de-horn, castrate, brand, ear marking and ear tagging.

On top of these amazing achievements KEFL students have been actively involved in community work and development at Nullagunda Community. This has resulted in the Agricultural Industry recognising the hard work of the students and the community and awarding a $100,000 grant to fix the permanent cattle yards and install two bore pumps for water in two paddocks.  A big thank you has to go out to Michael Jeffery from KTI for being a patient and knowledgeable Agricultural Trainer – and for allowing us all to experience life at Gibb River Station – we can never thank you enough for this.

Thank you to the wonderful support staff who travelled to Gibb River Station and supported the KEFL students. Geoff Burrows, Jamie Coltman, Brendan Forbes and Jenny and Ed MacNeill, thank you for coming and supporting the kids, and seeing what they achieve in fairly harsh conditions, we hope you had a great time.

The KEFL crew will be posting their blog entries very soon and will tell you in their own words all the wonderful things they have achieved. Stay tuned for photos, videos and detailed accounts of their success.

 

Nullagunda - Love! 

Galvins Gorge 

Well done KEFL crew – you guys rock!