Echuca heritage festival, 7 & 8.10 [Australia]

[uppergully26]

Hi all,

Well I've finally got around to posting some of my photos from the Steam Festival up to my fotopic site. See:

http://chrisriverpix.fotopic.net/

Hope to meet some of you guys next time I'm up there,

Cheers,

Chris

[paddlesteamerman1]

Hey Chris,

There are some great pictures up on your website about the Heritage Festival!!
(I heard somewhere that F05 is to become PS or PV Priscilla)

Maybe we will meet next year, this year I was working on the boats for the Port

[thewharfonline]

I heard that was in reference to the film Priscilla Queen of the Desert...I dunno if it's a true rumour!

Hey Chris on Heritage festival was it you that came down into the A.A's engine room when I was doing a stint of engineering? Because I'm pretty sure someone by the name of Chris popped down and there was something about trains mentioned!

Anyway just wondering....could have been an in direct meeting!

[uppergully26]

No wasn't me mate, i didn't get on a boat all weekend. We (my girlfriend and I) didn't get up there til about 10 on the Saturday night, so we just pitched a tent by the river out past the Golf Clubs on the NSW side. Then we didn't get back to Echuca until about 11 the next day. Saw the parade and the blessing of the fleet, but got talking to Andrew with his Cowley Roller (who I know from elsewhere) and the time just got away!!

I'm sure we'll meet up on one of the river run events next year some time...

Chris

[thewharfonline]

wow then that is weird, because we had a guy called Chris with his girlfriend come on board and talk to us about trains and paddlers etc etc!

Too bad you couldn't come on board a boat, glad you could see some of the stuff though! I went and saw some of the street stuff a few times throughout the weeked, there was some pretty fancy engines operating out there!

Was a great weekend, can't wait till the next one!

[paddlesteamerman1]

Just think, not even a year away now, and hopefully I might possibly maybe even have a chance for the SJ hull to nearly be finished... Fairly slim though!!