It's Alive.......ALIVE!!!!!

At last the weather was perfect for a work party up on T3 and a dozen keen volunteers made plenty of progress on and around the Skinks Back. The day in fact was a scorcher there was plenty of sweat but thankfully no blood and certainly no tears.

We left off from the last bit of work done in October 2006, after 4 months too set the posts we put in were not going anywhere. A few saw cuts here, the odd nail there and before we knew it the lizard like creature was taking shape.

By the end of the day a few people test rode the 10 metre long Skink, but we ran out of time to cut off the excess and staple down the tyres, which will finish it off. It is quite easy to ride down, and slightly challenging to ride up, so the plan is to cut the decking boards down a little so that it is a bit harder. We also built about 20 metres of track down from the Skink and 30 metres of track above the Skink.

Thanks to Murray, Andrew, Dr Matt, Matt Amos, Rowan, Ewan, Owen, Adam, James, Don, Brian, Sasha, Jonathan, Ebony the dog and the one person we have bound to have forgotten.

Digging holes for poles.

A quick session on T3 to cement the posts in ready for the work party on The Skinks Back in the middle of October 2006. Hard work getting all the timber down to the site but thanks to Stu from the Council not as hard as it could have been. That work party was canceled due to weather and it was not until Feburary 2007 that we got back to make a start on the critter.