Mount Florance Station

Welcome to Mount Florance Station

I love Mount Florance Station.  Why? Because I love the wild cattle, brumbies and being on the station was really fun.

Mount Florance is a cattle station.  It is huge, about 350,000 acres or 140,000Ha.  It is so huge that you have to drive everywhere.  The station has about 3,500 cattle and that is a lot of cattle!

Our camp ground hosts are Robin and Brett.  They are a really nice couple.  They took us out on a brumby tour.

Brett told us a story about a brumby.  The story goes that some people set up a trap to catch a brumby.  They caught one, took it back to their farm and tried to train it.  Three months later it died. So that teaches us to not take brumbies away from their family because brumbies should be left in the wild where they belong, otherwise they will die.  They are not like a normal horse.  Mum said that they looked that good that they could be race horses.  I thought so too, but you can’t just take them away.

We got very close to the brumbies. It was very cool.

The second day we were there we helped work on the station. We had to make sure the pump was running into the dam. The pump runs for about 2 – 5 hours.  The water is pumped from under the ground. It was 4 metres deep under the ground.

Then we went to another paddock to make sure the water in the trough was full, and also to check if the windmill was working.

Last year Robyn had to hand feed a calf and she named it Elsie!  The day before we arrived Elsie was locked in the yards with some other cows because the wind slammed the gate. So Brett opened the gate to let them all out. That’s how we learnt about Elsie. The farmers love her.

At the water troughs we saw some cows on the other side of the fence. I thought I saw Elsie and I was right.  Brett went up to Elsie and she came over and kissed Brett on the cheek.  We got it on video. I went up with Brett to see Elsie. Elsie licked my hand and then she kissed me on the cheek. My whole family patted Elsie.

Then we drove on to another paddock. Brett pulled over and told us that there were brumbies ahead. We saw a foal and about 8 brumbies.

I loved my time there ……..

From Ella