Outback

The Dry Season

It might be the dry season, but there's no rest in the outback: There are turtle eggs to be laid, saltwater crocodiles to dodge and young birds on maiden flights. Cattle must be mustered from the far corners of vast cattle properties and, when that is done, rodeos slam into action.

The Dry Season

53m 36s

It might be the dry season, but there's no rest in the outback: There are turtle eggs to be laid, saltwater crocodiles to dodge and young birds on maiden flights. Cattle must be mustered from the far corners of vast cattle properties and, when that is done, rodeos slam into action.

Previews + Extras

  • Kangaroo Haven: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Kangaroo Haven

    S1 E2 - 58s

    Mandy Watson has nursed and released 586 kangaroos back into the wild. At any one time she’s surrogate mother to 40 kangaroos ranging in age from delicate week old "pinkies" through to bouncing three-year-olds. She gives each and every one of them a name.

  • Australia's Wild West: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Australia's Wild West

    S1 E2 - 2m 13s

    At Jubilee Downs Station and Halls Creek Rodeo, the Kimberley’s best cowboys hit the dust.

  • Jubilee Downs: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Jubilee Downs

    S1 E2 - 3m 3s

    Australia's cattle stations are the biggest in the world. At Jubilee Downs, helicopter mustering has recently aided in rounding up the station's free roaming cattle, but horses remain the backbone of the operation.

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