28 March 2021
Emerald Puffing Billy Walk
The town of Emerald east of Melbourne has many walking tracks, a lake, and the Puffing Billy steam train running through it. It is a good place to go for a short or long walk.
Here is the lake at Emerald. As you can see and will see more of later, theres bridges and little bike boat things to rent. Sunshine at this point.
The paths are very well maintained, and lined with ferns. A good opportunity to play with the lightroom sharpness settings.
Oh, that is some nice background blur.
Nice and 3d looking.
I risked death by standing on the tracks to take this photo. Luckily the steam train did not come. I wanted it to come so I could take a photo, it did not.
These 2 people are waiting for the train. I stood around for a while waiting for the train or for the 2 people to get out of my photo. Neither occurred.
An even smaller station. I think the steam train will actually stop here if you tell the driver / conductor person.
My attempt at BIRDING. For many people this is why they buy cameras.
The sun was gone by now. Here is a swamp.
This is the main puffing billy station at Emerald. It has what appears to be a modern museum under construction just behind me. Trespassers prosecuted.
Heavy crop of a fully zoomed in shot. 2 x Kookaburras on the light pole.
That is the train. It is small. Unfortunately unless you buy a ticket you cannot get onto the platform to get near the locomotive to take a photo. The train goes to Belgrave where the normal metro train ends.
Back at the lake, heres the bridge shown in shot 1 again.
And now that its later in the day, people are riding the bike boat things. A nice easy day of walking.