00:00If you think mustering, drafting and loading more than 4000 head of cattle on 24 road trains
00:18over just 3 days sounds ambitious, well you haven't met the wave hill mob.
00:25So we loaded 9 yesterday, 6 today and we've got 8 tomorrow.
00:30That seems like a busy agenda.
00:33Yeah but it's a pretty efficient way to get it done, so if you're going to load 2 trucks you might as well load 8.
00:40They're long days for the women and men that make up the stock cab here on the 1.25 million hectare property, 750km south of Darwin.
00:50I don't know how it is but it's an addiction.
00:53Ask anyone, when I was a little kid all I wanted to do was work on the world's largest cattle station.
00:58At just 16, Rikki Leadingcoats might be the youngest on the books, but she makes up for her tender years in enthusiasm.
01:06I just love to learn everything I can, which is impossible, but I'd like to try.
01:14The stock campers spent the year sharpening their stock skills and refining their reflexes.
01:22They're alright, you do learn them, so once you do you just pick up on when they're going to snot you and when they're not I guess.
01:31Everybody's being snotted.
01:33Including yourself?
01:34Yeah, proper.
01:37And where else to learn the ropes but one of the Territory's most famous stations.
01:44To me it's probably the best property in the NT.
01:47Big call.
01:49It is a big call. When you've got the creeks and the rivers and the quality of the cattle here and the country, it's impressive.
01:58But it's not just the chops it carries as good country.
02:03The people seem to treat working here like a calling that goes beyond just running cattle.
02:09You can look at it and watch videos and read about it, but once you're a part of it, it's just a whole other thing.
02:16My new normal is just still unbelievable for everyone back home. Yeah, it's just incredible.
02:23Knowing everything that's going on down here, it's like you're sort of a part of something that's gone down in history.
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