Peters Milk Factory, Taree, with echos of butter churning, dried milk processing, steam cleaning and gum boots  from those days when it was a hive of industry (and sold Peters Ice Cream).
The rail line went past its doors and then to the nearby Co Op milk factory (home of Peerless Ice Cream) where, as well as rail transport, milk cans arrived by conveyor belt from the wharf on the Manning River.
Trucks collected milk twice a day from the dairys before refigeration and bulk handling.

Grass grows over the old rail lines.

Country Store from the sixties. Enterprises change, fall and decline.
Road transport has taken over. Useful rail sidings and corridors rust and remain only a potential cycleway in Taree.

Little prawns (shrimp) from the river
are usually very tasty.
Taree Fisherman's Co Op is a small
informal enterprise tucked away
beside the Manning River. Taree is just up the
the north coast.
Biologically, shrimps and prawns have some different
characteristics. Generally, we use the name prawn no matter what.

Taree Fisherman's Co Op.

 Manning River, Taree.

Clive Hamilton: Why are we ignoring climate change?     Climate Action Newcastle invites you to attend our 2010 Annual Lecture.   Australian author and public intellectual Clive Hamilton is coming to town to speak! The lecture will be at 7pm on Tuesday 23rd March at Newcastle City Hall, King Street Newcastle. Clive is a renowned public intellectual and academic who founded and directed the progressive think tank The Australia Institute from 1994 to 2008. He is the author of many excellent books including 'Affluenza', 'Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change' and his latest book 'Requiem for A Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change'. The last year has seen a surge in climate scepticism and apathy. Clive will discuss what is behind this phenomenon, and why we don't actually have to take climate change lying down! Entry by gold coin donation. No bookings required.