Arriving at the top terminus.

After a few trips a bearing under the riding car collapsed. Hence the train had to be driven home with the lightest available driver facing backwards. Here she goes -

Sayaka's new friend.
More Sayaka here.

What bird is that? I don't know. Averil suggests that it is a catbird.

Large and angry spider that dropped into workings to widen the long cutting - probably a mouse spider

Gecko on the back step at midnight.

We had visitors from England and Brazil. It was 40 degrees in the shade.

Peter and Marcos visited the line for the first time. Peter has his own railway in Wiltshire.

Everywhere we look there's jungle. Sorry, vegetation succession management opportunities. Any bush regenerators out there?

We had hoped to go on to Narara for the regular running day however due to the extreme fire danger there were no steam engines. Once the time for public running had passed we ran the electric engine there (see movie below). Well on Sunday it was too hot to do anything else when we got back from the beach so we replaced the timbers on the approach span to the high truss bridge that Ayumi and Paddy helped build in October 2003.

あゆみの橋は線路に近い
Movies:
Peter and Marcos depart the top end.
Marcos at Narara.
Marcos crossing the repaired track.

We only found out later that 200 people died in bushfires in Victoria that day.

Maddy learning to drive and taking Jerome for a ride.

Easter

This galvanised pipe sprung a leak after being in the ground for at least 51 years.

That's my sleeping bag!

Chris and several children bring a load of soil from the long cutting to strengthen a soft embankment.

Visiting the rail head at night. The weekend project was to fill in the hole in the bank under the boards on the left.

Next day, Natsuki nearly finished.

Macrozamia in fruit.
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Guess who did not just get bitten by a bull ant.

This young brush turkey discovered the compost heap. Later he came to inspect the workings at the new bridge site. We hope that he develops his parents supposed appetite for funnel web spiders, but not their habit of undermining the sleepers to get at them.

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