As a member of the AULRO Huts group Caitlin and I made our way up to Stones Outstation on Saturday, we left home about 9am and arrived around 11am.
This was the second working bee on the hut, as it was Meg’s Birthday on the privious weekend we were unable to participate in the first working bee.
We lifted the hut using acro props and a high lift jack and removed the old rotten posts, replacing them with new ones that had been cut on the prior weekend. Interestingly enough it appears that all bar one of the original posts were free standing on the surface and not dug in, but it is possible that the posts had completely rotted leaving no evidence of the post in the soil.
Caitlin in her new hat had fun playing with Ray’s kids and seemed to take a shine to Ray’s youngest son!
On Sunday Catherine, Caitlin, Meg and I headed up to Stones for the continuation of the working bee on the Hut and Meg wasn’t in the best of moods as surprisingly she was still asleep at 8:30am when I had to wake her to get her dressed to leave.
On the track into Stones we met with Wayne coming the other way who informed us that people had decided to pack up early and skip working today. (Most people had gone up on Friday or Saturday and camped at the hut for the weekend.)
Stopping to chat to everyone as they made there way out we found ourselves at Stones on our own. We stopped for a picnic at the hut I had packed for the trip and then made for the 3km walk to Lake Eildon.
On the walk we came across a very large wombat who was not impressed with us turning up at dinner time and 5 ducklings hiding from predators under a fallen tree in the creek. We also came across many kangaroo bones and rubbish that had once been on the bottom of the lake, such as boat parts, batteries and old bottles.
We also found concrete boat moorings that were at least 1.5kms from the water now and finally reaching the lake itself you could see the high water mark on the hills which was at least 50ft up from the current water level.
On the way home we made a quick detour through the township of Eildon before hitting the road in earnest for the 2 hour trip home.
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AULRO - Stones Outstation09/25/2007 10:53 AM