imagining circa 1880….

….alighting at Breakfast Point platform, the train now pulling away slowly up the grade revealing an expansive view of the plains to the east, the river below from where we had come, zig zag fashion …

….we made our way on the rough track that was the old Bathurst Road towards a stone house further up the hill in the curve of the railway, smoke rising from a chimney into the morning sky, someone is at the door…

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