in today’s episode I am sitting down with Ben Mills … who, as you heard in the introduction, came onto the podcast very willingly and with much enthusiasm. If you’re a long time listener of the podcast, you’ll be familiar with Ben’s wife Caitlin, who featured in episodes 29 and 33. In this episode Ben […]
Caitlin Mills has spent the past decade working on cattle stations in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia. In this episode we chat about Caitlin’s time in the Kimberley, including being a first time manager at Mandora Station with an initiation by fire, flood and drought (literally!). You can listen to the episode […]
Katie works at Mandora Station which is situated on the 80 mile beach between Port Hedland and Broome in Western Australia. That’s right, Mandora is on the beach! Anyway, Katie has a very unusual story – I don’t want to give too much away – but let’s just say she didn’t set foot on a […]
Written by Katie O’Donoghue – Stationhand, Mandora Station The alarm goes off. It’s early, the sun is barely out of bed itself. It’s a new day, another busy day ahead and so, with one final stretch I jump out of bed head outside springing off the deck and head off in search of the crew. […]
Host: Mandora Station Written by Caitlin Mills, station co-manager. By March 770ml of rain had fallen on Mandora. The place was wet – I mean really wet, our centennial average is about 350ml, so receiving more than double that really put a damper on things. This was a pretty stressful time for us, we hadn’t […]
Host: Mandora Station Written by Caitlin Mills, station co-manager. As you saw in our last story, 2017 had been a year of firsts for us. Cyclone season has been added to that list. Mandora is situated in what is locally known as ‘Cyclone Alley’. We are smack bang in the middle of Port Hedland and […]
Host: Mandora Station Written by Caitlin Mills, station co-manager. Now I’m just putting this out there right now, I am in no way a fire expert! Sure, I’ve cooked a few deadly feeds over a camp fire but bush fires are in a league of their own, and they can be very dangerous. So, the […]
Host: Mandora Station Written by Caitlin Mills, station co-manager. G’day everyone! My name is Caitlin Mills and with my husband Ben we are the managers here at Mandora Station. We are super excited for you to join us this week on Central Station. Over the next few days you will read a few yarns about […]
