Now what am I going to do, I'm stuck and it's too dark to take photo's?
I was enjoying my afternoon outside using the rideon lawn mower to tidy up the paddock down the bank from the house . Got most of what I set out to do done. Looking along the track to the pump shed, it looked bad 2 metres high with blackberry vines, teasels and tall dry grass all blocking the way to the pump.
Now I reasoned that with a little effort cutting forward a bit then reversing and doing the patch again gaining a little distance each time, I should make it to the pump house before dinner. The mowing went well until finally I reached the pump house then disaster, a down fall and all went wrong .
The mishap started simply enough, a front wheel dropped into a slight hole, I thought that rocking the rideon back and forwards a bit should do the trick.
No, the back wheel spun on the green mulch, leaning across to the side that the one wheel had spun on now had both wheels spinning backwards with no ground gained .
So forward I went to get a better run back a-n-d over did it! the back wheels now slid down into the same hole. So at this stage I asked myself, shall I abandon the ride on or stick it out? The blackberries made up my mind for me and down into the prickly gloom of the river bank, the rideon slid with me with my head down, hanging on.
It came to rest beside the river in a tunnel of vines and rubbish, I removed myself out of the seat and wiggled through the blackberries up to the top of the bank. Stood there for a while taking stock of the situation without even a scratch on me , thinking that the mower can stop there tonight and then something most unexpected happened! A movement caught my eye, in the centre of a large set of ripples in the river there was a fully grown Platypus swimming right beside the stuck rideon mower, I was awestruck.
Tomorrow is another day and I will sneak back down to the spot where I saw the Platypus. At least I should get a picture of my stuck rideon, if the Platypus doesn't wan't to show.
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Great yarns thank. I was taking a few UK tourists on a walk on the Yarra river to show them some koalas and roos. I was telling a 4 year old girl to keep an eye on the river to look for bunyips and platypus when we had you majic expirance. A Platypus swam up and stayed in view for over a minute. Pure magic only 30 minutes from the centre of melbourne.
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it's too dark to take photo's?
. Got most of what I set out to do done. Looking along the track to the pump shed, it looked bad 2 metres high with blackberry vines, teasels and tall dry grass all blocking the way to the pump.
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the back wheels now slid down into the same hole. So at this stage I asked myself, shall I abandon the ride on or stick it out? The blackberries made up my mind for me and down into the prickly gloom of the river bank, the rideon slid with me with my head down, hanging on.
, thinking that the mower can stop there tonight and then something most unexpected happened! A movement caught my eye, in the centre of a large set of ripples in the river there was a fully grown Platypus swimming right beside the stuck rideon mower, I was awestruck.
Very Very Lucky!
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