If Eloise Moir's experience within the agriculture industry has taught her anything, it's that if you're a hard worker, determined and willing to learn, opportunities will come knocking.
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This winning attitude was what secured her a place in the stock camp at Herbertvale Station - a family owned cattle property located 120km north of Camooweal on the Queensland/Northern Territory border.
Originally born on the Gold Coast, Eloise didn't grow up on the land, and her earliest introduction to the beef industry came after her family moved to Biloela, Central Queensland, when she was five years old.
It was here that she got her first horse, a Piebald mare called April.
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"I learnt to ride my little pony and did lots of pony club and would go help muster on friend's properties on weekends," she said.
"We only had a one acre block in town so Mum had to set up an electric fence and my little pony would get out onto the street all the time.
"We didn't have a horse float either so I used to have to ride her through town to the other side of Biloela to go to pony club. I can still remember one day when she bucked me off outside of Silly Solly's, and I'm still mortified about that to this day."
Before too long, Eloise's family made the move back to the city, but her desire to work on the land soon led her apply for a job as a stockwoman with Stanbroke on Fort Constantine, near Cloncurry.
"All through school I really wanted to be a large animal vet and I decided to take a gap year and work on a station to get some practical experience," she said.
"In that year I found that I was really interested in what we we were doing, and why, and the decisions that my manager was making, and soon realised vet wasn't the direction I really wanted to go in."
After completing a Bachelor of Agribusiness through the University of Queensland, Eloise accepted a role as a beef extension officer with Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, where she worked for many years before taking on the job at Herbertvale this year.
"It was a really great job to have straight out of uni, it exposed me to a whole lot of kitchen tables, and different enterprises and different regions of Queensland," she said.
"It made me realise how much I didn't know which was important and made me hungry to learn.
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"This year at Herbertvale was really instigated by me wanting to apply what I was learning in the DAF role to real life problems that I was faced with every day.
"I wanted to learn more, gain better practical skills and have a more in depth understanding of what producers that was talking to every day in my DAF role were actually dealing with."
Herbertvale station is owned and operated by Clint and Shelly Hawkins, who operate their cattle enterprise alongside Trek West, their tourism business, which offers tailored hiking experiences for people wanting to experience outback Australia.
"It's a really special part of the world up here and I feel really blessed to be there myself, but it's even more special sharing it with people that are from a completely different world to us," she said.
"I work at Herbertvale predominantly in the stock camp, which helps out with the running of the tourism side of the business as well.
"I also travel across to their backgrounding block at Hughenden where I'm involved in a lot of weight gain data collection and analysis at that property. I have a big appetite for data and that's the side of the job I really enjoy."
Eloise also balances her day to day work with her passion for rural photography.
"I take my camera with me most days, and I really enjoy taking pictures of my world at Herbertvale and the things that I'm seeing; beautiful landscapes and interesting people and sharing those experiences with people," she said.
"I often think back to that moment in university when I decided not to do vet science, it just sent me on such a different trajectory and for that I'm grateful."
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