When you drive over the Gall's properties in far western NSW it can been described as a patchwork landscape - it's ever-changing in just a matter of kilometres.
Some paddocks and water tanks are still dry on his property Coogee Lake Station while other parts are showing green shoots of recovery and dams are nearly full.
"That's a reflection of the region, some areas have seen recovery while others are still waiting for rain," Mr Gall said.
Mr Gall said there was "good to heavy" rainfall across most of the far west in three days last week with some totals in excess of 100mm, including 144.6mm at Fowlers Gap Station.
Initially, he said rain fell as a narrow band from Fowlers Gap (between Broken Hill and Tibooburra) to Trevallyn Station (east of Wilcannia) on the Tuesday, which was a precursor to more general rain from the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Esther on Wednesday night.
However, he said not all areas recorded useful totals with Broken Hill airport only seeing 5.6mm.
"Out across the South Australian border and between Broken Hill and Wentworth missed out, so graziers in those regions will be feeling very disappointed at the moment," he said.
At Coogee Lake Station 50.6mm was tipped out of the rain gauge in three days and at the Gall's adjoining property Langawirra Station there was 73.4mm, including 40mm on Wednesday.
It was the highest single day rainfall total at Langawirra since January 2015.
He said the rainfall event did fill six dams across both properties and ran water into a further eight, which was a huge relief for his family.
But the Creek Tank on his property is still empty.
It went dry for the first time in 40 years in August 2018, so it was cleaned out and deepened to 30 feet last year. Now the Galls wait for rain to fall in the right spot.
Last week's rain event did not make a difference to Creek Tank as it fills from a creek that rises 60km away in the Barrier Ranges north of Broken Hill, a catchment that missed out on rain.
Standing at Cow Tank, (where the catch tank was cleaned out the day before) on Langawirra Station with his six-year-old daughter Georgina on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Gall said what the whole area needed was an extended period of above average rain to fill dams that are still dry and allow pastures to establish.
"The last widespread effective rainfall in the far west was recorded in September 2016, and while last week's rain in isolation isn't a drought breaker, it has eased water issues for many graziers and will be a game changer if there is significant follow-up rain to keep the grass growing," he said.
He said the Broken Hill rainfall comparison table demonstrated that the last 36 months had been the driest of all 36 months (March to March) periods from 1900 to present - by a big margin.
"Running the same analysis for many locations further east demonstrates that the drought bit hard in the far west some 12 months earlier, and there's no little kick at the very end of the current period because Broken Hill hasn't seen the higher rainfall totals that have been recorded in many areas across eastern Australia since Christmas" he said.
He said rainfall deficits had been compounded by the impact of a record kangaroo population in 2016, with broad agreement that roos hastened the onset of drought conditions by some six months.
"What little rain that has fallen since 2016 has generally been from isolated storms, with most locations missing out," he said.
"This invariably brings with it hordes of kangaroos for those properties lucky enough to have a pasture response. More often than not, kangaroos are leaving the countryside in worse condition than it was before the rain fell."
He said the region had been progressively de-stocking since early 2017, and many properties were completely de-stocked as a result of running out of feed and water, some for over 12 months now.
Mr Gall said others were hanging on and hand-feeding core breeders, in some cases they had been doing this continuously for more than two years.
"It was demoralising to see reports of heavy rain further east earlier this summer, because it's virtually impossible to catch up once an area misses out and the weather event that brought the rain moves away," he said.
"However, the resilience being demonstrated by the people of the far west is remarkable, and they deserve a nod of acknowledgement for making it this far."
He said it was good to hear reports of water reaching Menindee, because the Darling River was bone dry for long stretches, and what little water was left in isolated pools was putrid, stinking and unusable.
"Fish kills continued in these isolated pools this summer, and water for livestock, domestic and town use is coming from other sources, such as bores and bottled water," he said.
"Water in the river also forms a boundary fence between properties, so those properties that have lost their riverine "boundary fence" are having issues with wandering stock with associated bio-security concerns, and in some cases properties have lost their organic accreditation."