Ruffs Adventures: r711

Hello out there.....my crappy pic of the full moon on Friday, but I still like

We went out for tea and I snapped these little flowers I like but can't remember what they are called. Does anyone out there know??

Anyway, Saturday (yesterday) had me standing on the footbridge in our town waiting....lovely day for it too

And here they come

Looking impressive R711

Slowing up to head past to the station

So much soot and R761 was right behind the other engine

Those of you who follow me know this is the annual SNOWTRAIN by steamrail.....and is next Sunday too but I will be in the city so may not see them.....maybe

Our station here has a turntable so they were turning the engines around

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R761 R711 both turned ready for the return trip later

I was waiting to pick up Brenton and this is his train just arriving next to steam carriages and steam in the background.......

So Brenton, Ray and Cooper came for the day

Frank and Riley (a bit shy) also

Daddy and Cooper happy snap

Riley unfortunately snapped him while coughing

These cousins had lots of fun

Back to the footbridge we went after 4.30 and just look at little Cooper ready for train fun

Riley too, but got a little scared last year so keeping Dad close ♥♥

One of the diesel v/line trains....toot toot.....Cooper loved this

And about to have steam come on through

Hope you enjoyed this video....Riley and Cooper loved this but kept a bit further away than Granny who ended up with plenty of soot in her hair lol

Well on to a new week and lets see what I get up to next xoxoxoxo

Roughly 2 weeks ago we hitched up the Winjana and escaped just for a few days to the country area 4 hours away from our place ☺

Got to see some long legged sheep, normally not quite so long in the leg but these ones were looking pretty tall for sheep......

We stopped one night along the Murray river.....we have been to this spot before when it was a lot warmer weather ☺ here free-camping-beside-murray-river

It really is a beautiful spot

And does have a toilet if required too

I finally completed knitting this pair of socks while away and can say they were certainly needed the next day......

Ice on the solar panels and the temp was minus 2 in the Winjana lol

But certainly had a beautiful blue sky as I poked my camera through the roof lol

MisHap was certainly hoping some sun was going to shine on her

I have started another pair of socks, this time using little circulars and loving how neat they are.....but still taking ages (just me) and still working on that one sock weeks later....I joined a Winwick sockalong thing on facebook ☺☺

We then stopped for 2 nights at a caravan park in Seymour as I knew there was 3 STEAM ENGINES coming on the Sunday ☺☺☺

It had the Goulburn river right next to it and hence it's name Goulburn River Tourist Park....also we had a powered site so we could run the heater thank goodness lol

There was a Corella building a bit of a home

Actually there were 2 of them......nesting I guess ☺

We did bring Woody and his pal Buzz lightyear too, but they preferred to stay rugged up under my jumper in the back of the ute.....they reckon the weather was too cold lol

On the Sunday we parked ourselves right here......

Along the railway line

Keeping our eyes wide open

And I marked where my feet would stand along that track....

Waiting

The man had his movie camera ready.....

I was ready too with my mobile camera and canon camera....

Do I see something.....

Toot toot here they come

It was fantastic to see.....

And I cannot describe the excitement I felt......eeek

Arrived so quick and past so fast......

We drove on to go back in to town

They had already past here and were back at the station.....I wont apologise for all of the photos because after all it is my blog and this is one of my passions so lots of photos ♥♥