A drone shot of the peaks we walked to yesterday

You can see how remote the hut is, there’s one drawback to that: if your car battery is empty because you were stupid enough to leave some devices charging overnight then AA Roadservice needs to come a looooooong way to come help you out. And since it’s a 4WD track it took me 2 hours of begging AA Roadservice on the phone to please find someone who was willing to drive up there as their regulars didn’t want to risk it. Eventually someone showed up and jump started our car. Thank you for the awesome service, AA!

When we were finally on the road we drove to Mandeville, this is shortly before we got there

Lovely roads, great scenery

In Mandeville is the Croydon Aircraft Company, pictured here is I think a Tiger Moth

Hard to imagine this once flew

Even a glider! A Musger Mg 19a Steinadler

A Fox Moth

A Dominie

A Aermacchi and a handful of other planes

They do a lot of restoration here

Engine stuff

No idea what this is

This was an interesting stop, the Croydon Aircraft Company

There’s also an old but beautifully restored locomotive in Mandeville

It’s right next to the aircraft musuem

It’s an old Rogers K92

Pretty shiny

I don’t think I had ever seen one like this in real life before

But it’s nice

It would have been awesome if they offered rides in it

Just imagine watching the scenery go by whilst sitting in this wagon

They used this to transport the post in the old days

Rachel is super happy, fresh fruit in Roxburgh

The hydropower station at Lake Roxburgh village

The Roxburgh Aerodrome, good to have seen it as it’s perfect for a landout with a glider if the need ever arises