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Tom Joyce with Pearl the kelpie on the Joyce family’s Mullaquana station, near Whyalla, SA.
STORY + PHOTOS NICK JOYCE | OUTBACK MAGAZINE
Life started at the local hospital a short drive from our family farm in SA’s Mid North, where 5 generations of Joyces before me cleared, tilled and fenced the land we still call home today. With 2 of the best parents any child could ask for, my brother and I were encouraged to venture outside our comfort zones and take on responsibility at a young age. First it was motorbikes that took us on ‘family holidays’ around Australia, however, when the bikes started to get a bit more expensive, combined with a couple of dry years on the farm and no first-place trophies at the national events, Dad thought it was time to take up a more team-oriented and much more local sport: football. Aussie rules, that is. I eventually got selected in the national draft by the Adelaide Crows and ran out for a couple seasons in the AFL. Injuries kept me on the sidelines a lot and city life really wasn’t strumming my chords, so I found myself making every effort to get back to the farm to help Dad or up into the hills with my bow and arrows to hunt deer and unwind.
The moment came when I was set free from the AFL and could finally load up the Hilux and ‘head bush’. I told Dad to write me off for the next 10 months and that I’d see them at harvest time. As I crossed the border into the NT, a feeling of being home hit me. I made it out into Arnhem Land and found my paradise. I made a fast connection with the local mob due to my football background, and probably having a reliable motorcar to go get a killer held some weight also. Those 10 months I told Dad to write off is now 10 years. While I do go back down south to help at harvest or seeding every once in a while, the Territory is home.
I picked up a camera a few years back and now try my best to capture some of the beautiful landscapes and wildlife I run into along the way. I later fell into a tourism/safari hunting business after having discussions with the local traditional landowners. It combines my passion for wild places, hunting and business. There’s hardly ever a dull day.
My wife Georgia and I can’t see ourselves leaving anytime soon.
A saltwater croc slides back into the clear waters off Danger Point on the Cobourg Peninsula, NT, after it had been feeding on a dead buffalo on the beach.
A wet season storm washes across the floodplains of Buckingham Bay, Arnhem Land, NT.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: brothers Elijah and Sidney Joyce – seventh generation of their family on the farm – reel in a couple of big ones, Wandearah East, SA; Dusty and Pearl having a snooze on the ute after a big morning shifting sheep; Brian Joyce at sunset with a full header bin near Wandearah East, SA; a large male crocodile in the black water of Corroboree Billabong, NT.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: tidal waterways create their own patterns in Arnhem Land, NT; brolgas sail across the outback plains between Julia Creek and Cloncurry, Qld; wild buffalo push across wetlands in Arnhem Land, NT; escarpment waterfalls provide a spectacular backdrop to aerial exploration.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Damper’ cleans and lubricates the bolt action of an old rifle, Beswick, NT; David Daniels brings in a mature bull buffalo on Conways station, NT; ‘Damper’ and Ray Larunguy having smoko during a hunt, Beswick, NT; a wedge-tailed eagle in Litchfield National Park, NT.