Scheyville National Park has as its centrepiece a collection of buildings which have been used as a training farm for British boys (the "Dreadnought" scheme 1911-1939), briefly as a place of internment for Germans at the outbreak of WW2, for military training during that war, as accommodation for migrants from 1949 to 1964, then an "Officer Training Unit" from 1965 to 1973. Then it was handed to the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Walking round the odd assortment of buildings and concrete slabs where there had once been buildings, I got the impression that NPWS hadn't quite worked what to do with it all. But no, I was assured by two very confident and enthusiastic NPWS staff that there were plans to restore the buildings. Yes, I could hear the hammering and sawing and see the workmen. School groups would come in busloads and learn about the environment and stay in the restored accommodation. A music and arts festival next October. Something like a convention centre. I can believe this for the substantial and respectable 1930s buildings, but what about those unlovely corrugated-iron buildings out the back? Those too, I was assured. I told the helpful and optimistic uniformed lady that I would come back for the festival in October. I'll try to document what's happening.