The track

With our lack of recent rain and hence grass, our cows have had the run of our place lately, being left to forage for themselves. Occasionally they stray from our property and visit the neighbours, and we have recently been working on a fence to keep them into a paddock we call ‘Hidden Valley’. It’s 700m long, and follows a curved track halfway up a hill which means it has almost no straight sections. It’s become a type of experiment – we are not sure if it will work, (but hopefully it will). Our cattle are fairly respectful of fences, which is good. We had some olives cut and poisoned on the high side of the track, and the contractors left them on the road for us to clear and burn. Sadly we didn’t get to it before fire season so firstly we had to clear the track using our trusty ‘Scoop’. That done, we are off to install the star pickets…