‘Pandie Pandie’ via Birdsville
6,625 square kilometres – 1.637 million acres

LOCATED
30 kilometres south of Birdsville.
706 kilometres south of Mt Isa. 500 kilometre north of Maree.

RAINFALL
Average annual rainfall of 125mm.

SERVICES
Maintained SA Dept of Transport road (Birdsville Track) the full north south length of the property DRCS telephone, 2-way satellite broadband internet, and satellite television. Aerial mail service from Port Augusta weekly and twice weekly mail from Brisbane to Birdsville. Flying Doctor registered airstrip. Station generated power. Birdsville has a Medical Clinic, Primary School to Grade 7 and twice weekly air service.

IMPROVEMENTS
Main homestead of 6 bedrooms and large verandahs. New kitchen and dining area. 3 bedroom men’s quarters. 3 bedroom cottage. 2 machinery sheds including workshop. Aircraft hangar.

FENCING
Fenced into 6 main paddocks, 6 smaller paddocks including 3 horse and 1 bullock and 10 holding paddocks off set yards. Mostly 3 barb on timber and steel posts.

YARDS
11 steel trucking yards and 16 steel drafting yards.

COUNTRY
‘Pandie Pandie’ features approximately 40 kilometres of double frontage to the Diamantina River with a floodout of approximately 15 kilometres wide. Gumborie Channels run north / south for approximately 65 kilometres and flood out through 3 flats.
The country grows enormous amounts of verbine, boganflea, clover and blue bush in the flood out country which is estimated to cover approximately a third of the property. The other country is made up of approximately 1/3 sandhill and the remainder gibber plains and mesas with Mitchell grass, neverfail and native pastures. The sandhills and the gibber plains carry a lot of herbages and salines in season. Arguably the best natural beef fattening country in Australia.

WATER
30 dams ranging in size from 15,000 to 40,000 yards. Permanent and semi-permanent holes in the Gumborie Channels and the Diamantina River. 3 mills on the Diamantina River 2×25′, 1×21′ which gravity feeds for 30 miles.

CATTLE AVAILABLE
Herd of 2000 mixed Shorthorn Cattle available to successful purchaser.

PLANT
Station Plant sufficient to operate the property.

AGENTS COMMENTS
‘Pandie Pandie’ is one of the Historic Pastoral runs of Australia, located 30 kilometres from Birdsville on the Diamantina River. Arguably one of the best natural fattening properties in Australia. The floodout country is naturally irrigated and the salines, blue bush and clovers are prolific in season.

Home of the Frying Pan brand, ‘Pandie Pandie’ is being offered to the market after 70 years in the Morton Family.

Auction
Friday 10th October 2008 10:30am
Venue
Level 5 Riverside Centre 123 Eagle Street Brisbane QLD 4000

AGENTS
Mark Fennell 0427 057 525
Mt Isa 07 4743 9114
Andrew Adcock 0407 674 972
Brisbane 07 3231 2222