NORTH Queensland’s gulf country is set for a slow start to its mustering season, with the area starting to count its losses from record-breaking floods.
As far as stock losses go, the Leichhardt River catchment appears to be the worst affected – with areas in its watershed receiving 500mm in a number days, sending water towards the gulf and into the Georgina River in the Lake Eyre Basin.
The floods also inundated homesteads that had never been flooded before. One of them was on Floraville Station, which owned by Burke Shire mayor Ernie Camp.
“It has gone under the house in previous…
