Picnic Grounds timber beams Fire Extinguisher at Yarraville

Fire Extinguisher at Yarraville

The vacuum sealer was part of a chain of operations that turned flat material into shaped footwear

Steel narrow-gauge rails thread into dense vegetation

Lone Chair at Waterfall

and local action kept it where it belongs

Picnic Grounds timber beams Fire Extinguisher at YarravilleAbandoned picnic tables and benches sit beneath the bushland canopy at Waratah Park, Duffys Forest, NSW, the former wildlife park that grew from the filming location of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Vegetation has pushed steadily back through the cleared ground since the park closed in 2006. Where visitors once gathered, the bush is quietly reasserting itself. Part of the Waratah Park series.