The Drovers Camp in Camooweal, Queensland | Non-profit organisation

The Drovers Camp

Locality: Camooweal, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4748 2022

Address: Barkly Hwy 4828 Camooweal, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.droverscamp.com.au/

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25.01.2022 It is with great sadness that I wish to advice that Steve Lomas passed away last Tuesday after suffering a major heart attack. Our sincere condolences goes to Keitha, family and friends at this sad time.

25.01.2022 Beautiful rain with quite a bit of wind

24.01.2022 'We are Mount Isa' was created as part of the Mount Isa Music Video Series set in the heart of Kalkadoon Country and performed by students from Spinifex State C...ollege. All of the 8 State Schools in the Outback mining city are featured in this music video and each took part in this epic series which is full of huge personalities and outstanding talent. Please check out the rest of the series that showcases the unique culture of each individual school who proudly perform amidst a backdrop of rocky ridges, rising stacks and blazing Outback sunsets!! Experience Outback Queensland, Australia ABC North West Queensland Mount Isa, Queensland @Mount Isa Mines Rodeo Mount Isa City Council Spinifex State College - Mount Isa See more

21.01.2022 Camooweal, Queensland, The Gateway to NT. Town population of about 300. Experience Outback Queensland, Australia #AIPP #Photography #Engagments #Weddings #Famil...y #Modelling #Fashion #Proformance #Events #MyNikonLife #NikonAustralia #DJI #GoProANZ #NISIFiltersANZ #Wanderlust #igersAustraliaOfficial #MountIsa #QLD #SeetheothersideofQueensland #OutbackTravellerMagazine #Queensland #Needabreak #QueenslandWeekender #BeautifulDestinations #SeeAustralia #igersAustraliaOfficial See more

21.01.2022 A great community.

20.01.2022 This unique item arrived in the mail - my trophy for winning the 2020 Bronze Spur written bush poetry competition. Thank you Ellen Finlay and The Drovers Camp f...or your tireless work in support of Aussie bush poetry! Read my winning poem Lawson’s Legacy here ... www.shelleyhansen.com/74/lawson-s-legacy See more

19.01.2022 Thanks for calling in today Wendy.

18.01.2022 Spent some time in the museum today. Enjoy XxB

18.01.2022 This is a great song.

15.01.2022 Our event is happening on the 19th September 2020. We will need to request contact details from you upon payment of your $15 entry due to COVID-19 Restrictions.... Should you not supply this information the Committee does reserve the right to refuse admission. No Wrist Band No Service. Gymkhana 9am Broncon Branding 1pm SEE YOU THERE!!

14.01.2022 Total of rain received was 41mm.Total of rain received was 41mm.

12.01.2022 Camooweal Picture Show

12.01.2022 Slim Dusty page Hello, friends,I hope all is well with you and yours. It’s good to have something different happening that we can talk about in these very weird pandemic days.

12.01.2022 Results of the Bronze Spur Award.

11.01.2022 Chalky is mounted up ready for his ride home. See you in August 2021.

09.01.2022 Skip to 2 hours 22 minutes 30 seconds. This is the interview from the 1988 drovers reunion with my father (Bomber Stacey) & his siblings at New Castle Waters which was repeated last Sunday on Australia All Over.

08.01.2022 Bruce Simpson the Packhorse Drover was at Camooweal spelling his plant and he got a bit sweet on my mother who was a single school teacher there at the time. I ...found this quite famous poem that Bruce wrote and he gave it to mum. This is a beautiful poem and I hope you like it as much as I do. Crippled You may rub your head on my coat old chap As you stand by the gate in pain And I loose the knot in the Greenhide strap That you never shall wear again You may nudge my hand as you’ve done so oft In the days that have gone for aye For you’ll carry me never again on watch Round the camp at the break of day -------- You will wait no more for the Stores to splash By the light of the storm lashed sky When the scrubs re-echo the thunders crash Round the camps on the Muranji No more by the night horse break you’ll doze In the chill of a winters night When the branches stir and the back-log glows And the stars wink cold and white ----- You will draught no more as the grey dust swirls From the camp and never again Will you wheel the rouges by the Stockyard Wings When we yard for the cattle trains We may find another with swinging gait To ride thro the trucking town And there will be others who’ll quietly wait By the peg as the stars look down ---- We may find another to match your pace Thro the scrub when the fireworks start But never another to take the place That you hold in a drover’s heart Your mates have stood on the Camp since dawn You are watching alert and keen The packs are on and the girths are drawn But the fence stands there between ----- The plant is off on the road again And here by the paddock gate The days to follow and all in vain You will stand by the yard and wait And often out on the western track When the evening shadows fall Our thoughts will turn to the gamest hack And the best night horse of all ---- Actor, farewell till your last lone sleep May never the creek run dry May the grass be whispering fetlock deep Forever, old chap Good bye By Bruce Simpson

07.01.2022 It’s the time of the year when our festival should be in full swing but sadly not this year.

05.01.2022 B Trindle November 1950 @ Kamilaro( not sure if this place is Spelt correctly.

05.01.2022 This post card is titled 'Stockman,Australia' is of Mick Sing and his horse Paleface, Mick and paleface were well known drovers in the Moree area

04.01.2022 Rainbow now the rain is finished

04.01.2022 Tender Opportunity: Camooweal Town Hall Restumping Council invites tender submissions from suitably qualified and experienced organisations for RFT/2020-6... CUS Camooweal Town Hall Restumping. Tender documents will be available online from www.lgtenderbox.com.au from 5am on Saturday 31 October 2020. Should you require assistance with LG Tender Box, please contact the LG Tender Box support team on 1800 779 027 or email [email protected] Tender submissions close at 2pm on Tuesday 24 November 2020. Please contact Council’s Procurement Section on (07) 4747 3200 or email [email protected] for more information or assistance regarding the tender process.

03.01.2022 We were entertained tonight with music and poetry. Everyone had a great night.

03.01.2022 Rain from the cloud. 17mm about 6.30pm and 14mm from a storm at 5pm.

03.01.2022 Another evening of fond memories.... XxB

02.01.2022 This cloud rolled by this afternoon.

02.01.2022 John Warrington Rogers & his wife Catherine nee McCaw

01.01.2022 Anyone got any idea on the history of this whip handle? A friend of mine Kurt Hammer was helping to pull down the old saddle shed at Wave Hill NT a fair few ye...ars ago. This whip handle was hidden inside some bore casing that they had the corrugated iron attached to for the roof and fell out when it was pulled down. The whip handle has lead or solder inlayed into carvings on the handle. I am not sure how it was done so neatly without power tools. It could possibly be made by Fred Gutt the legendary old blacksmith who made the Wave Hill spurs. Anyone have any ideas?

01.01.2022 ATTENTION ALL TRAVELLERS HEADING TO BEDOURIE To all travellers heading to Bedourie please ensure you are well stocked up on groceries and fuel. A fire at the S...impson Desert Oasis has resulted in it being unable to provide the following services to the community and travellers:- groceries, diesel & ULP, takeaway food, restaurant meals & bar. It is still open for vehicle repairs, hardware, motel accommodation and caravan park. The Bedourie Royal Hotel is still fully operational offering accommodation, coffee and meals. Further updates will be released as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.

01.01.2022 Hi All, A guy from a page Ringers from the Top End suggested I post here! I believe it will be of interest to all of you and I think a lot from what I have seen... posted, will find the book and stories enchanting! My grandma, Anne Marie Ingham, an author, artist and stud cattle and sheep breeder /producer, wrote a few books on the northern parts of Australia (including The Boss Drover and his Mates), cattle, droving and tales of mateship. Her last book before she passed away, "Wild Cattle Wild Country" explores tales of Ernie Rayner who began as a ringer and progressed to head stockmen. The book tells the stories or mateship, men who worked on horses mustering, and captures the life of bull catchers, ringers, pilots and Aboriginal stockmen. A book of funny, sad and enchanting moments of history of Australian men and women in northern Australia and each photo and story is a personal one of those she (my grandma) spoke to. We have a number of boxes of books left, and are from the last print run that happened not long before she passed away. They are $40 each including postage nationally. If you are interested for either yourself a fathers day or Christmas present for someone simply send me a message! Thank you! :)

01.01.2022 A night of melody at the Drovers Camp, Camooweal. XxB