Picnic Grounds timber beams from around 1994 until 2006

from around 1994 until 2006

and local action kept it where it belongs

Steel narrow-gauge rails thread into dense vegetation

Constructed between 1906 and 1907 as a mirror image of Malthouse One

Timber-frame buildings line the deserted path

Picnic Grounds timber beams from around 1994 until 2006Abandoned 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.