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MAN: My favourite animal that I hear - I still haven't seen it -
you're mustering early morning and you shut the motorbike off
and you're just out in the middle of nowhere, not a sound around you,
and the 'did-you-get-drunk' bird starts up.
And all you hear is this, "Did you get drunk?
"Did you get drunk? Did you get drunk?"
(BIRD CHIRPS MELODICALLY)
It's just a beautiful, peaceful moment to have.
I run a sheep station.
The property's just under 180,000 acres,
and 80 kilometres of it is the Indian Ocean.
So, it's a pretty speccy piece of coastline.
The whole idea of running a pastoral station
is not based around running livestock.
You have to look after the vegetation and the environment
to be able to feed the animals.
We're trying to make a compromise between the livestock
and the native flora and fauna out there
and we're trying to keep them in balance.
You'll have kangaroos, emus,
your wedge-tailed eagles are around, osprey,
and then all your lizards - there's a multitude of lizards.
All those animals have to water,
and on the coast here, being very sandy
with no waterholes and no permanent wet areas,
they do rely on the windmills.
This country, this rangelands, this pastoral side of it,
it can just be a barren piece of red dirt,
and within two days, you'll see bits of green coming out after a rain,
and suddenly, it just completely and utterly changes in colour and cover.
The ability for this countryside to regenerate is astounding.
I could sit there and just watch the waves roll up the cliffs
for hours on end.
It really is just peaceful.
You just get a bit of down-and-out time
where you can just sort of clear the mind,
and it's a bit like looking into a fire -
you sort of get a bit of a daze up and, uh...and enjoy your beer.