Woke this morning to rain but it cleared about 10am so we drove the 10 km to Franklin and went to the Wooden Boat Centre. This is a traditional timber boat building workshop and actually has classes to build the boats. The course runs for 7 weeks and during that time students build a wooden boat (usually from Huon Pine) by hand. There were 2 boats there partially built so you could see what they do and one that was finished but the student had decided to make it into a sailing ship so was still there making the mast by hand. This involved turning a square length of wood into a round length of wood! The Centre also restores old boats for people and there were 2 there being made ship shape again. They also run an 18 month course for the building of larger boats and you actually end up qualified to build and restore boats commercially. We then strolled out to the wharf area and checked out the boats moored there. Retuned to the van via the supermarket. After putting away the groceries went for a walk around the park which has chickens, ducks and pigs. The park is also beside a river which is meant to have platypus but unfortunately we didn't see any. Back at the van we chatted to the neighbours and watched the clouds roll in. We all went our separate ways before the rain came.
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