Here's just a few little things I jotted down while I was out there that are PRETTY different to standard life..
1. When you're out driving around the the stations there isn't really such thing and a normal road, seatbelts are a rare thing, indicators are hardly needed and cows are strolling everywhere.
2. The next door neighbough is an hours drive away. Literally.
3. You become very suspicious or excited if you see any other vehicle on the roads.
4. Goodbye phone signal.
5. Most nights outside you don't need a torch as the sky is so clear and the moon and stars are so bright everything becomes illuminated. Star gazing is incredible up there.
6. You end up sharing your bedroom with all sorts of little buddies like geckos, spiders and mozzies and your toilet with frogs, toads and if you're lucky like we were on our first day even a scorpion!
7. Jeans, shirts, boots and a wide brim hat all day, everyday, every occasion.
8. You learn new pieces of Aussie lingo each day... Like... Haroo (goodbye) tucker (food) grog (alcohol) bloke (a person, female or male)
9. It's quite the norm for an 11 year old kid to be driving around and using rifles. How bloody cool!
10. Books, board games and blog post writing become your evenings once all the work is done (unless like me you're zonked by 9pm and tucked up in bed) I became a whizz at monopoly.
Jokes, I was rubbish. Callum won every game :|
11. Drinking milk straight from the cow (as in milking and then chilling the milk in the fridge after it's been through a filter cloth, not strolling up to the cow and sucking on it's udder, thats fucked up) is so good! Shop bought milk sucks compared to the full cream fresh from the jersey cow. Cereal just isn't the same.
12. We ate a lot of beef. The best steaks and sausages ever. Made even better as a snag Sanger (sausage Sarnie)
13. It didn't rain hardly at all when we were there but there was an evening where it rained for all of 3 and a half minuets and the smell after it had a sprinkle of rain was awesome. Bit weird I know.
14. The people are just so friendly. Everyone knows everyone up there and they make you really feel at home.
15. Working in the yards after we had drafted the cattle was the loudest oh my god going noise ever. Like hundreds of little cow fog horns going off constantly. The first couple of days it was deafening but then you got used to it pretty quickly.
16. Poddys. The poddys were definitely on of my favourite parts. A poddy is a calf that for some reason it's mother is unable or unwilling to take care of it. So they'll usually be taken in and fed twice a day with the milk we get from the milking cows. A couple were so tame you could actually ride them once they were fully grown (not that I ever did) I always found myself playing with something cute and fluffy whether it be little calfs or the working dogs when i probably should've been concentrating more on cows running in your direction with big scary horns.
17. The awesome mustering horses and dogs. The horses live in the bush so they're hardy as fuck. They go through and over anything (usually forgetting that you're on top of them and you get taken out by low branches) but they're such hard working horses. Much better than you're standard riding school ponies. And the dogs are awesome when they work (awesome all the time because I'm a sucker for anything cute and fluffy) and seeing them work around the cattle just gives me a lot of respect for how clever animals really are.
Our time on Bellfield was an experience we'll never forget with the lovely people and lovely place. 
