It’s the middle of a Perth heat wave, and three blokes from the northern suburbs are pushing their way through a horde of rapacious, vulgar flies.
The sun bearing down on them, the humidity like being in a sauna that won’t turn off, brothers Simon and Andrew Poli together with mate Nick Swallow, trudge through what feels like an endless temperature spike with killer flies at every piece of exposed skin.
They started a couple days earlier, driving about 170km south from Perth along the coast to the City of Bunbury suburb Picton, where they took their first steps along the old junction of the Bunbury train line.
The aim was to run along the Picton to Northcliffe railway line, which was constructed in the late 1880s and where specific sections from one point to another were officially opened and operational throughout the 1890s.
For Simon, Andrewthem on – their late friend Peter Shinnick.
