Pontoon Bridging Set

Well the few days in Central Otago are gone and we are back home. Christmas Day and Boxing Day were a little cooler and overcast than Christmas Eve, but yesterday the skies were blue and a gentle breeze blew up the valley, over the vines and past the lodge...

...it was shaping up to be a stunner...and we were leaving to go home...

By mid-afternoon we were back in Auckland where it was warm, the skies were equally blue, but the wind was gusting to gale strength, and I spent the evening finishing off the pontoon train set that I started a week ago. 

The set consists of the engineer officer and the four pontooniers carrying beams...

The wagon, with timbers stacked for transport...

The wagon with the pontoon loaded...

And then with the horse teams that I had painted a month or more ago.

The whole set goes nicely with the pontooniers and the pontoon bridge set and workmen that I worked on back in September (here).