How could someone who traps dingoes have such a deep affection for them? If you don't understand, maybe you never will.
Man has the ultimate power. He can despoil, he can ignore, he can overreact but he can also open his eyes, mind and heart. Your choice.

It was dry, the drought back in 2017 was a killer. Wild dog attacks were on the increase on the calves so we got the urgent call to get some traps in the ground. The trick was to catch the dogs but not the green Goannas.

It had been a hard month, with only eleven days of good trapping without driving rain and flooded creeks. With only a few days to trap my last property, we needed some quick results.

What a pack of misfits this wild dog pack turned out to be!
The oldest female had the stumpy tail and broad head of a domestic red cattle dog but with the markings of a classic yellow dingo. She still wore a tattered and bleached collar when caught and headed up a pack with colours ranging from black to Tiger striped. With a few days left, Skunk and I kept running the trapline.

As soon as we drove around it was clear, most of the tracks were old. This might not be as easy as we first thought.

Do you sometimes get the feeling that you have just arrived too late?
This was one of those times.

Well here is one from the archives!!
Filmed close to 25 years ago, before being produced on VHS, so not many people will have seen it. My apologies for the lower quality of footage and some sound removed due to copyright issues.

This was our first Northern trapping program for quite a few months. The first calves were on the ground but not a single wild dog had been seen by the landholders. Could we pull a good tally? Skunk was keen and confident so how could we fail?

Here is the second section of our 1999 classic.
We head up to Lotus Bird Lodge at Princess Charlotte Bay, then down to Niall Station for chital and back for another scrub bull.

It was the first day out into the back country and that means anything can and does happen. It certainly was a day of surprises.

Here is another clip from the Wild Country archives. Bulls, Boars, Bucks and Barra with a couple of great hunters, Central Queensland Australia.

I was getting impatient but Skunk was playing it cool as usual. Brandon had his normal dopey grin on his dial and the little Zuke was running smooth enough to last another day. This was going to be a great trapline.

From the wild country archives. More adventures with wild pigs, scrub bulls and dingoes before heading to the coast for some time in the wildest estuaries of the Central North of Queensland.

I had a feeling, this was going to be a big day. How could things go wrong with Skunk and and the galoot Brandon with me?

I tested this system for Russell Neale from Jende Industries Australia.

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Seiko Alpinist SARB017 - Such a shame it's discontinued

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Omega Seamaster Professional 300 Coaxial Ceramic 41mm - Best Value Automatic Luxury Swiss Watch

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