A 60km gravel road links Coobina Chromite mine with the Great Northern Highway… Sylvania Homestead is about 30km along this same road.
To keep this road maintained to mining specs a three person crew from Smoothy’s contractor business (Roller, Grader, Water truck) is working on it for 12 hours per day 365 days a year.
‘Unfortunately’ there is also three cattle grids along this stretch of road… maintaining these is Cowboy business…
It took four Cowboys more than a week of shovelling and hacking to clear these grids from the concrete like dirt…
… I now know one reason why I would not be a good Cowboy for life…
