Life can be hard, the seasons unrelenting, but there is always the spirit of making do

Down past the bottom gate, 
at the end of the long country driveway, lies the Yabbie dam
home to the delicious, but dangerous, bush lobster.. 
the Yabbie..



Armed with fearsome nippers, the Yabbie, also known as the Pinaroo Pirhana, 
is carnivorous and only lives where there is a plentiful supply of fresh game,
thus they can be found in any waterway where the overhanging gum trees
provide a steady diet of unwary drop bears who lose their footing....
waterholes where sheep unwittingly come to drink, oblivious to the danger,
and in Bunyip Billabongs.

Now you can usually tell a Bunyip Billabong
by the Bunyip Slime they leave

If you see these warning signs,
DO NOT GO IN THE WATER

There are a number of ways to hunt Yabbies,
The safest way is with gelignite...
but some brave souls have been known to cast
Yabbie nets into infested waterholes
each baited with a piece of meat.
This is an excellent way of using farm animals
which die in a drought.. there is nothing more likely
to attract a bull Yabbie than a sheep carcass or half a cow.

For the inexperienced, or the foreigner
we recommend the Yabbie-safe method:

Buy a property which you intend to farm,
this will ensure a lengthy drought in which
all the dams and billabongs dry up..
..as the clay pans crack the Yabbies will
be overcome by sunstroke and unable to run..
Then, If you have a fast and sturdy ute
you can usually hit them with the bullbars ;-)

 
but don't drive over them...
they are hell to scrape out from the tread and the
claws have been known to puncture tractor tires.

Best served with garlic butter
and taken with a pinch of salt.