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The Airborne Cowboy Heads North |
It's dawn above the savannah and everything that can run or fly flees the sound of the oncoming helicopter: the jabirus and the brolga cranes, the wild horses, donkeys, wallaroos and buffalo. This area is known, in the cattle trade, as ‘rough country.’ It is a landscape that offers cattle plenty of places to hide from helicopter musterers. There are deep creek beds surrounded by spreading gum trees, and rocky gullies lined with savannah forest. It takes a pilot with the skills of Clinton Brisk to coax the cattle from their comfort zones so they can be collected and managed.
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