Hunter River

Okay.

So they're actually found from the Hunter River in the south to the Clarence River in the north in New South Wales, which is a pretty decent stretch.

Yeah.

And there's two divergent sort of lineages, so two different subpopulations, so to speak.

So we're basically changing both of those components.

On the banks of the Hunter River in Newcastle, the southern end of the wharf at Cooragang Coal Terminal is a hive of activity, thanks to an important upgrade.

The current shiploaders, the spouts, they can't articulate all the way up.

So this project is, we're changing the bottom of the chute, which is called the trimmer We're giving it an extra range of motion to be able to fully fold in underneath itself, and the purpose of that is that when it's approaching the ship or coming away from the ship anywhere over the water, it'll be able to be completely captive to any material.

That might be a bit of an issue, that brake dust here around the bottom.

That lower chute assembly is only about three and a half tonnes, so obviously they need the four blocks to safely manage that weight.

On the Hunter River north of Newcastle, the spout on a massive shiploader is about to be offloaded onto the Cooragang coal terminal wharf.

They would have pre-loaded those chains up so there won't be a drop.

There's no doubt.

And I often think of, you know, rivers like the Hunter River and Newcastle Harbour and those areas, what they were like 300 years ago.

Yeah.

A thousand years ago, like far out.