Hidden Valley Station

10/04/2026

School Governess – 2026 Season-August | Hidden Valley Station

HVStn Management is seeking an organized and energetic School Tutor/ Governess to join our family for the 2026 season. Located 400km south of Katherine, this role is for the 2026 school year through to mid/late August.

Role:
• Education: Facilitate daily lessons for two active boys (aged 5 and 8).
• Instruction: Support the children with their curriculum, ensuring they stay on track with schoolwork.
• Management: Maintain an organized schoolroom and supervise afternoon activities.

Benefits (Excellent Savings Potential):
• Competitive Wages: Negotiable based on experience.
• All-Inclusive Living: Free food and accommodation provided.
• Connectivity: Free phone and high-speed internet (Starlink) provided.
• Station Life: Opportunities to experience station operations and head out with the stock camp operation (Optional).

Candidate & Traveling Couples:
• Who we are looking for: We are open to all applicants, including travelers or retired individuals touring Australia by caravan who are looking to settle in for a few months.
• Partner Work: Work may also be available for a partner/spouse depending on skills (station maintenance, machinery, or general labour).
• Caravans: If you are traveling with your own setup, we can discuss site and hook-up options.

Requirements:
• Patient, self-motivated, and creative.
• Must enjoy a lively, kid-friendly family environment.
• Working with Children Check and a current driver’s license are preferred.

To Apply: Please email your resume and references to [email protected], or get in touch to discuss the role and potential work for a partner.

10/04/2026

Station Cook – 2026 Season | Hidden Valley Station

HVStn Management is seeking a dedicated Station Cook for the 2026 season at Hidden Valley Station, located 400km south of Katherine. The season runs through to early December.

Role:
• Meal Prep: Prepare healthy, enjoyable meals for 8–15 people daily and cater for occasional functions.
• Maintenance: Maintain and clean the kitchen, BBQ area, and vegetable garden.
• Inventory: Manage kitchen stores and ordering.
• Butchery: Basic meat processing (guidance on meat cuts is available).
• Schedule: Cooking up to 6 days a week in a modern kitchen with a large pantry, cold room, and spacious prep areas.
• Adventures: Opportunities to head out with team members for those interested in seeing the rest of the operation (Optional).

Benefits (Excellent Savings Potential):
• Award Wages: Or negotiable based on experience.
• All-Inclusive Living: Free food and accommodation provided.
• Accommodation: Private, air-conditioned room with a private bathroom.

• Connectivity: Free phone and high-speed internet (Starlink) provided.

Requirements & Environment:
• Experience: Preference given to those with previous station cooking experience.
• Family Life: We are a family-run station with three boys (ages 2–8). We all eat together in a kid-friendly, team-oriented environment.

To Apply: Please email your resume and references to [email protected]

30/03/2026

One of the challenges of trying to run a remote business is being cutoff in the wet season (no fuel, food, parts or medicine in and God help you if you need medical help and can't get a helicopter out). To be fair we normally have a pretty good access, even in the wet season. Unfortunately this year we have had a couple of things accumulate at once, primarily a very large wet season along with road drains not being cleared out for repeated years in addition to having had gravel graded off too many times resulting in water not only running down the middle of the road but back and forth causing a fair amount of damage.

This isn't even the most washed out area sadly area (couldn’t reach that one). What makes this spot interesting is that it has springs and will continue running for quite some time to come. On the upside its so wet this year we aren't driving around (late start) and so don't need to buy diesel and the cattle and country are looking quite good (cattle greatly assisted by the amount of lick we feed).

22/11/2025

Following behind the Helimuster video, the main thing with Cabri helicopters is pilot safety, they handle smoothly (while still being VERY manoeuvrable). This little video was taken a few days ago, flying along with hands free, aircraft settled, maintaining height and heading. They are a machine that doesn't mast bump and capable of handling extreme conditions others just can't.

21/11/2025

Good on HM Air, it's nice to see innovation coming to the N.T. If you want a well known basic machine fly a R22, if you want to come back alive, fly a Cabri. Between cost benefits and pilot safety Cabri are unbeatable which is why we have used them for 5 years successfully despite naysayers.

Australian mustering operator HeliMuster NT has been putting the Cabri G2 to work in the rugged environment of Australia's Northern Territory. We caught up w...

17/08/2025

Crew inspection of one of the new expandable accommodation blocks. Mounting, veranda and roof to install. Should be quite nice, featuring additional exterior panels in a wood style, deluxe bathroom, upgraded stone polymer composite flooring, stainless steel extra long kitchen benches, extra roof, 3meter veranda (with railing) and double glazed glass all around to keep it cool. Should be the flashiest crew accommodation about. More pics to come once all mounted and assembled.

20/04/2025

Perhaps a confronting subject for some but we are rather partial to meat out bush, it's kind of the perk of living in a cattle. It's bloody hard to work like we do without a high protein diet (and NO we will not "eat ze bugs" Karl) not while we have premium beef to eat anyway.

Part of station life is picking prime animals to slaughter for food supplies. A funny thing we find is that beef, like wine and cheese (and some might say women :) ) get better with age so we pick aged animals for rations. Also part of our ideologies is that we believe that while we raise an animal for meat, we want it to have a good life beforehand.

Also we find young beef has no flavour which is fine if you want to open a sauce bottle but we like the flavour profile of dry aged, grass fed fat cow or bullock. There really is nothing quite like it cooked on a wood barby. This was a well aged fat cow that we then hang at 0 celsius for several weeks before starting on.

17/04/2025

Smoko for the day, will keep the crew full for a while. Need it to dry out more so we can get out and wear some energy off while we can still fit our jeans 🤣🤣🤣.

13/04/2025

One of the particularities of living in the bush is that you have to get used to surprises. These chaps are good for keeping hearts beating fast when discovered without warning. Although they do form a valuable part of our ecosystem here.

We find we don't have many poisonous snakes in our homestead area. Now we put this down to our various pythons living around the place but who knows.perhaps it's just luck but we don't think so. So these chaps have a respected position, albeit having been moved to various ends of the complex when they start hanging around the puppies (or kids area as a big snake will fairly towel a small kid up).

09/04/2025

Silver in the sky. You get some beautiful sunsets/Arvo shots and this one is spectacular albeit a silver one.

06/04/2025

You see some dammed funny things from time to time out bush. We were checking the stock were all good and found this little chap. Not every day you find a juvenile pink buffalo. Now we understand he is a pink buffalo and not a albino due to the colour of his horns although we really don't know much about buffalo.