Oops – always double check your camera settings!
There’s always one day when you leave your camera on the wrong setting, and today was that day. We were travelling along the back road from Winton to Jundah. Doc and I came this way …
Queensland
The Saxby Roundup and rodeo
After 4 blogs I still haven’t posted all the action of the Saxby Roundup and Rodeo. So here it is, in pictures. I kept hearing how much the horses love it, and they were amazing …
Real cowboys do wear pink, at least at a rodeo
Chaps. I don’t mean English gentlemen – I mean those things that cowboys wear over their jeans. You see a lot of them at a rodeo.
That crash you heard was the breaking of stereotypes in the outback
Stereotypes die hard. The CWA and scones; a tough, man’s world; Queensland, an hour (during daylight savings) and 20 years behind. I’m sure you’ve heard them all too. But the reality is very different, at …
Akubras – more than just a hat
Do cowboys ever take their hats off? Friday night, the first night of the rodeo, was a chance for everybody to dress up and socialise. I felt decidedly under-dressed, even though I’d changed my shorts …
We’re off to the rodeo, I think
The first thing I noticed about a country rodeo was that everybody tucks their shirts into their jeans, and wears belts. Even teenage boys have their jeans up on their hips rather than around their …