No I am not talking about raids to the buffet car, though we did plenty of those.
Every now and then there is a little excitement outside, like a train load of these huge rolls of steel running beside us.
Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
I see these go past on the Grafton Bridge but not in such swish and bright new boogies... the south always gets the new stuff first.
ReplyDeleteWhich direction do they travelling Mark? I was wondering where they originated -- assumed from around Wollongong
DeleteSo that's what they are Joan ... I've seen them but had no idea what they were.
ReplyDeleteRaids to the buffet car are good on long train journeys.