Welcome Swallows (Hirundo neoxena)

Sorry, birds again. It just had to be these 2 swallows that actually sat on this wall for about 2 or 3 minutes, and the camera was just about smoking as I took heaps of pictures of them. They appeared as if they were trying to figure out what the noise was, and they were looking all around.
We were out on the old sugar loading wharf at Lucinda, to get a photo of the big wharf to blip, but there were little swallows swopping and diving all over the place.
Anyway, here's a bit of information about the wharf that I didn't blip.
Sugar farms were first established in this area in the 1880's and today, the Victoria Sugar Mill is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, and the sugar loading wharf is the world's largest off-shore sugar loading facility. It is 5.6km long, and the seaward end is 1.2m lower than the land end, as it follows the curvature of the earth.
The onshore storage sheds can store up to 230,000 tonnes of sugar, and from these sheds to the ship loader, the sugar takes 22 minutes on a conveyor.
The ships rest up at the end of the wharf, but move back and forth as the sugar is pumped into them. If it was just poured in, in one place, the back of the ship would break. The way they do it, ensures that the cargo is evenly spread, and the weight is correct.
About 12 years ago, when we first came to Ingham to look up our neighbours brother (who she hadn't seen for about 10 years), we asked him what there was to see.
Three things; The cemetery, the Sugar Mill & the sugar wharf.
Back then we were able to take a tour around the sugar mill, but they no longer do them – Health & Safety stuff........
The cemetery was on the list, because, as he said, some people had spent more on their graves than they had on their houses. I'll see if I don't get side-tracked tomorrow.