Knock knock. Who's there? Cracked tree...

Walking along the Puffing Billy Railway line, not far from home, we heard some dull knocking sounds. When we came back through a while later, the knocking continued. We rang the SES to say "I'm no tree-ologist, but I think there's a dodgy tree out here".

A few minutes later, the knocks stopped, replaced by a crack and a fall. Called the SES again, and called Puffing Billy to stop the train coming back through from Emerald.

We hung around for nearly an hour with other passers by, stopping cars, directing traffic, and clearing the road. A couple of other locals just happened to have a chainsaw in their boot. Most of it cleared before the emergency vehicles arrived to take over. Great community effort.

The road is open again, but I think the boom gate controller box will take some time to fix.