The day after our Gordon River cruise, we climbed aboard the Wilderness Railway train. It is supposed to be a bus trip from Strahan to Queenstown, but a storm had hit the area recently and damaged several hundred metres of track and downed thousands of trees. So, we just travelled on the train but it wasn't the full trip. It was still a lot of fun, though. The train travels through some absolutely beautiful rain forest. It stops for morning tea, which you have to buy, and then later on stops for lunch, which is provided.
When we stopped for morning tea, a woman came and spoke to me. We talked like we had known each other for ever. Cathy is from Perth and was travelling on her own. I find that a very brave thing to do. At lunchtime we ate together and talked a lot more. Brian asked the train staff lots of questions, including the fire lady. Yep, a job for the girls!
Cathy and I decided to go for a quick walk through the bush. Another woman came up to us and asked if we would take her photo as she was also travelling on her own and wanted a photo of herself rather than just taking photos of things she was seeing. Cathy then asked her if she would take a photo of her with her lovely friend. Awwww ........ what a lovely woman. She also thought I was about thirty-five so she had already won me over anyway.
During our leisurely stroll through the bush, we heard the train whistle blow. Oh no!!! We were only about halfway through and had to make it back to the station before the train left. Luckily one of the train staff knew where we were. As she saw the three of us appear, she asked us if there was anyone behind us. There wasn't. It was a very quick walk back to the train and as I was wearing thongs, told you it was warm, it made the walk very difficult. We joked that if we missed the train we would be in enormous trouble as our mobile's had no reception. We made it. As on the boat the day before, the trip back to Strahan was very quiet.
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