HOOFS2010 Inc - AUSTRALIAN CULTURAL CONNECTION

HOOFS2010 Inc - Help Our Old Friends Survive

ShareI Love aSunburnt Country

LandOf Sweeping Plains

Of Rocks and Mountain ledges

How do we keep a fading culture, How do we stand back and allow what is the Australian way die with each of the funerals we attend of the past, Please for the sake of the gallant men and women that battled not only the enemy from other lands but the land of Australia to make it what we have today.

How sad it was to attend a school cultural parade! 350 children and not one representing Our heritage.
Hence the need for a page to be dedicated to the earlier Australians and their amazing characteristics that unfortunately are departing this world as one generation of brave and rugged Men and Woman pass away.

IT is with sadness in my heart as the once tradition of the very Aussie core is fading . Although my heart is with the brumbies and my work for positive management for Both horse and environment i realised one works inhand with the other, without attachment to the country that was we cannot feel a connection to the past and what exactly that meant for the people of Australia.

A rugged untamed land where man learnt to survive and work with the elements for growth and prosperity.

Where land didn't need to be locked away from its occupants as each and every man respected the land that provided for him and management was a matter of routine it didnt have to be planned as it was the daily way of life.

A time when a life of an animal was respected and humaneness was customary not forced.

I would love to see Australian history compulsory in schools .

Where our young people can have the pride in their own world and feel the heart of the past. it is my intention to keep this page going with the assistance of anyone who has a story to tell or Picture to show.

so please send me anything you have of interest that connects man to beast and i will gladly share it with our members

regards

Lynne

Murray Irrigation History

the Gap horses Building The Canal

Australian horses at work

Horses working in the australian bush

Building the Canal

working on Mulwala

Mulwala Canal

horses working on the irrigation canal

Muwala Canal Riverina

The Murray Irrigation Area is geographically located within the Riverina area of New South Wales, between Mulwala and Moulamein. It was created to control and divert the flow of local river and creek systems for the purpose of food production. The main river system feeding and fed by the area is the Murray River.

Much of the water is supplied via the Mulwala Canal, flowing from Lake Mulwala. Water supply is provided by Murray Irrigation Limited, a company formed by the New South Wales government in 1995. Murray Irrigation purchases water directly from the New South Wales State Water Corporation.

The system is regarded as a major engineering achievement comprising an elaborate series of weirs, canals and holding ponds (fed by upstream rivers and dams), including the large Lawson syphon where the Mulwala Canal flows under the Edward River.

Anabranches of the Murray including the Edward River and the Wakool River are also managed to provide irrigation water to irrigators along those waterways. Managed flow along those waterways bears little correlation to natural flow regimes, with peak flows occurring during peak irrigation demand (summer) rather than during peak runoff (early spring).

Our first story is from a 91 year old gentleman Mr Tom Ryan Berrigan Resident and Story teller from the days of old. Mr Ryan delivered me some great pics of his life and several generations of Ryans so please Enjoy