Showing posts with label bushwalkers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bushwalkers. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 May 2017

Free Range Organic Meat

First off . . . . In my opinion wild harvested game, or Free Range Organic Meat is infinity more preferable to packaged, sometimes chemically supplemented and processed meat.

When you pick up that plastic wrapped meat from the supermarket please be aware that farmed animals can be confined, fattened, transported and processed sometimes in cruel conditions and may wait as long as 48 hours smelling death waiting at a processing plant. I fear they often suffer. Of course they may live a life as pleasant as responsible farmers can make possible.

Wild taken game is ideally enjoying a free and natural life in the wild unaware of any danger and in the next second quickly and ethically taken. No suffering and I am respectful and thankful to the animal.

I do not hunt any animal I can't utilise and mostly they are feral (introduced pests) and practice the sustainable utilisation of wildlife. This is my sport and my hobby.

My first Victorian high country Sambar.

 Just a small part of the cleaned and trimmed venison.

 Vacum packed cuts of venison.

 Some in the ageing fridge ready for further processing to steaks, snitzel and venison jerky.

 Hermiones share, mostly the shoulders and other off cuts.

Happy Hermione

My Tikka .308 deer rifle.

Sellier & Bellot 180 grain round and the actual projectile that dispatched the deer.

Sunday, 23 October 2011

Kooyoora


Kooyoora State Park is located 46 kilometres northwest of Bendigo, and 12km west of Inglewood, Victoria, Australia. Its a 11,350 hectare reserve comprising Box-Ironbark forest and rocky granite outcrops including Melville Caves. Not really caves but fissures that have appeared when the weathered granite split to create cave like openings. The bushranger, Captain Melville is believed to have used the area as a hideout.
 Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 200, 16mm f16, 1/160 sec
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 Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 200, 11mm f16, 1/200 sec
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 Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 200, 11mm f16, 1/160 sec
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  Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 400, 11mm f22, 1/100 sec
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  Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 800, 11mm f22, 1/100 sec
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 Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 320, 11mm f22, 1/100 sec
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Sunday, 10 May 2009

-27.90465 S, +153.204625 E

The main reason we went up to the sunshine state was to celebrate with our grandson on his 9th birthday.
Also its an opportunity to do some maintenance on the house and clear the lantana from the vacant block next door taking over our fence. Lantana is listed in Queensland as a 'Weed of National Significance'. A picture of a lantana flower below.Below is the view from the corner of our street to the Gold Coast. Just down the hill some 17Km and you run straight into the Worlds Sea World, Dreamworld Wet'n'Wild Water World, Movie World, Australian Outback Spectacular etc . .
A flower we found in the Botanic Gardens a few hundred metres from our house. although its over some steep terrain :-)


The traditional owners are the Wangerriburras, the area has a history of logging and Advocado , kiwi fruit and ruhbarb farming but is now largely rural residentail surrounded on all sides by by the Tamborine National Park made up of 12 separate reserves. The platue has lookouts, gorges, cliffs, waterfalls, rainforest areas and wet eucalypt forest.

Another interesting feature is the Fig Tree roundabout at the top of the Gallery Walk a Km or so from the house. This tree was planted by a local in about 1926 to provide shade for the many bushwalkers that came by this way and stands here in the roundabout today.

The must see here is the new Brewery and cheese factory.