Last week i was working in an area of bush next to one of the old victoria gold rush towns, Ballarat. We were doing track work along the Great Dividing Trail. This is a 280km public bush walk trail that links the old gold rush towns at the heart of Victoria. This winter in Australia has been the wettest in about 12 year and had cause alot of flooding in the area that has damaged large areas of the trail. We were putting in new guide posts along the track and building new foot bridges where they were needed. The work was very hard this week as we had to carry alot of timber up to 2km into the bush where the 4x4 couldn't go. As well as all the carrying the lowest temperature that week was 27 degrees and got up to about 33 degrees, which made it even more tiring. Building the bridges involved digging foundations, cutting the timber, putting hand rails up where needed and constructing the actual bridge.
We saw a fair amount of wildlife that week, including Kangaroos, Wallabies, Lizards and a Brown snake (apparently they are quite venomous). One of the Kangaroos we saw was crossing one of the bridges we had made, its good to know our hard work was not in vain!
I spent the weekend in Melbourne with friends from college. They've got a house sorted, we'd planned to have a bbq and see some of the sights in Melbourne but it threw it down all weekend so all we managed to do was go to the christmas parade and a few pubs!
I also ate a kangaroo steak and some Kangaroo sausages the other day, i'd recomend the steak, it was beatiful.
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