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Big Culverts, Little Culverts and the Latest on the Roadworks

Update: I have had a lot of people coming from http://forums.somethingawful.com/. Could someone coming from there tell the others on that thread that I don’t know anything about Sara. Also, if you could email me and explain exactly what is going on I’d be happy I can’t post on the forum because I don’t want to fork out $10

I haven’t done an update for a few weeks so this one is overdue and I have to cover a bit. The main things that have been going on are the placement of culverts on the two concrete pads - one near our place and one down at the bridge. Apart from that, the roadworkers have mainly been adding layers upon layers of dirt to the future roads. But anyway, onto the photos.

These culverts, all 64 of them, were delivered about 1 week ago to the area about 10 metres to the right of this photo. Yesterday and today they have been putting them in, and this afternoon they finished. As you can see here, they put one row down, then leave a gap and repeat. Over the gaps they put concrete coverings.

These culverts down at the main bridge are about twice the height and width of the smaller culverts. I think they still have to put the other side in. This will bring the total number of culverts at this location to 36. Although I saw the crane that brought them here, we were driving past so I wasn’t able to take a photo. I can tell you however, that the crane was absolutely monstrous because it had 3 (might be 6 if they are double wheels) heavy duty wheels on each side!

On a lot of stretches of future road, both to the right and left (although not in front) of our place, they have progressed to the stage of laying crusher dust and gravel down. Gravel goes down first, and crusher dust goes on top. In this photo gravel is on the left.

The only other thing of interest that happened about the time I wrote the last update was that they have demolished the tiny old pump house building. I’m not sure why although dad thinks it is because they need to move the power pole.

This is what the pump house looked like. The roof had already been removed in this photo.

[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury, road, culverts[/tags]

November 23, 2007 – 3:53 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography | Tagged adelaide park, culverts, road, roadworks, woodbury | Comments (0)

SES Cadets Breakup Night

Last night we had out SES Cadet breakup night. We arrived at SES HQ at 4:00pm, and then a bus driver (from St Brendens I think) kindly drove us into Rocky. Unfortunately the girls from St Ursulas had their formal on that night, so none of them turned up. All in all we had 14 people, including us kids, the SES leaders and the bus driver.

One thing the pictures below don’t show is that we went to Domino’s Pizza after bowling. I got a Vegorama while the others all got Meatlovers. But anyway, on to the photos!

Rockhampton Bowling #1
The Rockhampton Ten Pin Bowling Arcade. At first they had the Ultra Violet lights on but as you can see below, they turned them off after a while and just put the normal lights on. In UV light, everything the colour white glows.

Someone having a bowl!

Another guy having a bowl.

After we had finished bowling but before we went to Domino’s, they gave us our first aid certificates and statements of participation for being in the SES. I have to renew my CPR in November 2008, while my first aid skills don’t need to be tested again until November 2010.

[tags]ses, cadets, first aid, course, rockhampton, ten pin bowling, pizza[/tags]

November 16, 2007 – 4:02 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography | Tagged cadets, course, first-aid, pizza, Rockhampton, ses, ten-pin-bowling | Comments (0)

Water Problems have been Fixed

I think that the water problems I talked about in the last post are fixed now. For a start, they brought in a huge pump from Coates hire, which is doing a very good job of keeping the water level down. More details are below.

Water Problems #4
The really powerful pump that they brought in to keep the water level down. Although you can’t see from this picture, it is almost as long as I am tall.

Water Problems #1
Here they are digging a trench around to re-route the water. Mum tells me that she was talking to the chief surveyor here and he said that they were looking for a water cable or something that they broke. Once they’d found what they had been looking for, the filled the trench in.

Water Problems #2
In this photo (taken yesterday as all these photos were) you can see the hole with almost all the water drained out of it. Now (13th November) all the water that was covering the concrete has gone.

Water Problems #3
These logs were used to bridge the creek so that the excavator could get across without making a huge mess of everything.

[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury, road[/tags]

November 14, 2007 – 1:51 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography | Tagged adelaide park, road, roadworks, woodbury | Comments (0)

Roadworkers Can’t Be Happy… Water Problems

OK, I figured that its about time for an update on the roadworks. I want to focus on the large section of ground that they dug away in October. They have since poured concrete all over the bottom, but water has been pouring in from one side and filling the hole up. Below are photos with explanation captions.

Water #2
This is just a day or so after the concrete had been poured. As you can see, The only water in the area was on the left (and the right) of the concrete. The water from the right was coming in from drainage pipes that had been installed before this.

This is looking from the opposite direction as the photo below, and you can see how full the area is with water.

All the water gushing in from the small creek that flows just along that line. You can sort of see how they’ve tried to block it on the right, but the water has just pushed through. Just to right of this is a whole lot of really soft mud, which I nearly lost my shoe in after my leg got sucked in to about my knee (or a bit below).

This is looking from the other side, and you can see more clearly how they’ve tried to dam up the creek.

The slab of concrete near the bridge further down the road hasn’t been affected as much, because there is adequate drainage in the form of a pipe under the bride.

[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury, road[/tags]

November 11, 2007 – 2:41 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography | Tagged adelaide park, road, roadworks, woodbury | Comments (0)

Discovery of Huge Lilypilly Trees!

About 4 days ago my dad and I were riding around on the base of the new road that is going past our place. Because all the grass and small trees have been cleared to make way for the road, it is possible to see what was behind all of the grass. Anyway, we could see a small creek that was near the fence, so we went under the fence to investigate. I had explored some of this creek (nearer to our place), but I never made it up this far. The photos below tell what I found.

Lilypilly Tree #1
We found heaps of lilypilly trees in flower! In case you don’t know, lilypilly trees produce small, pinkish fruit that can range from being very sweet to quite sour. To find out what they look like, just search for lilypilly in Google Images.

These are some of the blossoms that later develop into fruit. When I was taking photos there were hundreds (thousands?) of bees collecting pollen.

Except for the tree on the far left, all the trees in this picture are lilypillys. You can use the fence post in the bottom right corner as a reference to how big they are.

I really should make a map showing all the lilypilly tree locations, because I know of quite a few :).

[tags]nature, exploring, trees, fruit, lilypilly, woodbury, roadworks[/tags]

November 5, 2007 – 2:26 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography, Woodbury, Bungundarra & Adelaide Park | Tagged exploring, fruit, lilypilly, nature, roadworks, trees, woodbury | Comments (0)

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