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We met up with the rest of the hunt, they had a small pack, (seven couple), of mixed hounds and thirteen mounted followers and a few car followers,
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Well, the Australian Adventure carried on today !! Gerrard40 invited me out for a day with the Hunt he is terrier man for. I set off at 7.30 and headed west. I met up with Gerrard just after 9.00 at a little town called Lara, near Geelong. He had four of his terrters and his 'Roo dog with him;
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Gerry, I'd love to come out with the hunt, I'll pm you my wifes number. If somehow you don;t get it, both Dromana and Frankie/Moses have it. Skycat, I may be wrong, but I think the only difference between Roo Dogs and Staghounds is the coat, Roos being smooth coated and Stags being rough. The Roo dog in the pics has a wee bit of Bull in him way back, and the Stag has a bit of Borzoi way back. Tomo, we saw pleanty hares, and the only reason we didn't slip on them was that we were after other quarry. I can't believe the Saluki or Saluki Hybrid isn't more popular down hear, as the land we
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Then we visited friends where I picked oranges and lemons from their garden, (and this is their winter !!). These were then squeezed and used to make some very nice vodka cocktails !!! LOL !!!
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I also managed a bit of sight seeing, my wife and daughter took me up to the Dandeenong Ranges to see the wild parrots. These REALY are wild birds, and come down out the trees to eat seads out of your hand. Cockatoo's and Rosella's;
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A tremendous day out, with top dogs and lads who knew what they were doing !! I can't thank them enough, and hope I managed to keep up when walking and not getting in the way when digging, to maybe get another invite out !! LOL !! Heres some random pics of the dogs and qarry;
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This one was dispatched and we went back to flushing the long grass. At the end of the strip the dogs put another fox into a rock pile and the terriers were entered. There were two at home and one bolted, to be dispatched in fine style by the Roo dog. The other was killed below ground by the terrier, who then proceded to get stuck !!! It was starting to get late now, so some of us went for a walk with the running dogs, where the Roo dog caught a couple of rabbits, a very versatile dog ! I was assured that both the Roo dog and the Stag would take kangaroo, if it were legal, but of course, it's
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These two were dispatched and we went on to flush some long grass on the margins of a stubble field. one of the Whippets flushed a small vixen into a rock pile and the terriers were entered. It was only a short way in, but we had to use the ute to move some of the bigger rocks, and she was drawn and dispatched.
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A fine dog fox, he was shortly followed out by the vixen.
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On his way out !!
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Yep, theres one at home !! In fact there were two of them, a vixen and a dog !
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Aussie style digging; five of us standing around drinking beers and one guy digging ! LOL !
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We then moved on to do some dens and bolt some foxes with the terriers. The first den was in a pile of burried volcanic rocks; the farmers dig these out of their fields and either bury them or pile them up around the fields, they make pefect dens for the foxes, but hard work for the terriers and diggers ! There was a fox at home, but no way for us to get to it ! The next den was in an embankment of a dam, and much easier digging; and produced two foxes.
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The first place we tried was a flood plain with a spike grass gulley along it. The Stag was positioned at the end of the plain, the Whippets behind in case anything got by the Stag, and I was on the higher ground with the Roo dog. Two of the guys went into the spike grass with the terriers and shotgun and beat towards us. A fox broke cover onto the plain and I had a perfect view of the Stag coursing it. Another broke to the side of the Stag and a short course put the fox back into cover. Another broke behind the Stag, right in front of the Whippet, who were slipped but lost it in the spikes. W
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The Land : This was some of the biggest land I have ever seen !! Stubble and grass feilds as far as the eye could see; it reminded me of the American and Canadian plains, and made the Fens look about as big as my allotment ! LOL !
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I've had to buy a pre paid dongle and it's SO slow !! Anyhow, one of the lads from Ozziedoggers site picked me up at 5 am, and we drove a couple of hours west to meet up with three other guys from the site. We got there just as dawn was breaking. The quarry was fox, and we had a 'Roo dog, a Staghound, two Whippets and a pack of Jack Russels with us.
