She is Australian, of course. (With a name like “Bindi”, where else could she be from?) Back home they call her “Farmgirl”; but, we prefer “Outback Bindi” – it has a bit of a ring.
In Bindi’s case, both monikers are pretty accurate. She lives on an isolated “Station” (what we’d call a “ranch”) hundreds of kilometres from the nearest town.
The Station, owned by her parents is enormous. It covers many thousands of acres and stretches almost 90 kilometers between boundary lines.
On this station in the middle of the State of Victoria halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide, they raise cattle, sheep and wheat.
Here in Canada we’d call Bindi a “Cowgirl” because she can often be found riding and roping cattle. The only ways to get around her property are on horseback or by Land Rover or on scrambler Dirt Bikes. Bindi is at home on all of these modes of transport.
But there are a lot of hazards in the “Outback”. It is not an uncommon occurance to run into predators like a Brown Snake (among the world’s deadliest of reptiles) so she probably feels underdressed without her rifle or shotgun.
She has just completed a six-month sojurn across Canada from coast-to-coast. She avers the Rockies and Banff National Park was her favorite.
As we said, she is a “cowgirl” and there is the obvious lure of the west – Canada’s cattle country.
She has left for Calgary to attend (what else?) the Stampede – the world’s largest Rodeo.
She plans to purchase a pair of “snakeproof” riding boots which cost less than half of what she would pay back home.
But the last 6-foot Brown Bindi stepped on got blown to pieces by her shotgun. “Outback Bindi” can take care of herself.
