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We are going Green this year with our Christmas wishes, we hope you enjoy the e card below.

A couple of weeks ago we received 20mls of rain which caused some of our bigger creeks to run. At the same time a group of School students and teachers from Victoria were driving along Glass Gorge Road. They approached the Oratunga Creek while it was near it’s peak and instead of applying caution one [...]

We found this photograph in the old Homestead of Moolooloo. We know that is not a photograph taken here and have asked many people if they know where the photo was taken and unfortunately no one knows!
On the back of the photograph is the following information:
Mrs R J Marleson (or Matheson), 43 Austral Tce., Malvern [...]

Agmates Rural News » Blog Archive » Australia is Hotter & Drier with More Salinity - And other Myths.
I stumbled upon this very interesting article on the Agmates Rural News Blog which shows another side to the hot topic ‘Global Warming.’  It is worth a read.  So too is this one, grab a cuppa and [...]

Audrey of the Outback: Welcome to Moolooloo Schoolroom.
Christine Harris, local Children’s Author of well know titles “Audrey of the Outback” and “Spy Girl” series recently did a little write up about Millie and Henry on her Audrey of the Outback Blog. Follow the link above to see the post…
Millie and Henry were ever so impressed, [...]

Mary has managed to get a few more shots of the baby eagle, which doesn’t really look like a baby anymore!

Winner of SA Great’s Australia Post Small Business Award for the Flinders/Outback region.
A well deserved win for all the hard work Joylene, her family and staff have put in over the years.
Congratulations also to Black Jack Getaway who received a commendation in the same category and to Bendleby Ranges who received a commendation in [...]

From an email forwarded onto me earlier this week…quite poignant really!

This little fella is not far off leaving the nest so this will inevitably be the last picture we will get of him.
Thanks to Mary from Worumba for sending them in!

Here are some pictures of the Campdraft held a couple of weekends ago.

Here is an updated picture of the eagle chick as seen in this previous post
It has grown a great deal from the early pictures. Thanks to Mary at Worumba for sending the picture in!

Here are some photos of the kids riding in the Monte Carlo event at the Blinman Races on the weekend.  This is always a very popular event with the kids and the great part is you don’t even need your own horse to compete! Thanks to some very kind horse owners who are happy to [...]

If you look closely you will see a baby eagle in its nest! Mary and Lesley walked up some steep terrain on Worumba Station over the weekend to get a closer look.

Orroroo is buzzing with whispers around town of reported sightings of a family of echidna’s, there have also been sightings on farms in the district including Bendleby Ranges. Echidna’s are very shy creatures and it is a very lucky (and perhaps quiet and persistent) person that ever gets to see one in its natural habitat!

If [...]

Orroroo has long enjoyed a great reputation for their public toilets and as heard on the ABC radio last week they have made the Top 10 South Australian list again…well done!
Follow this link to read last years KESAB tidy towns interim report…