Victor Harbor famous horse tram
A recent visit to South Australia brought me to Victor Harbor, where this famous Horse Tramway operates. It runs across a causeway connecting Granite Island and Victor Harbor.
Lots of joy to the kids and adults, to be able to ride on a historical tramway. Horses seems happy too, they get plenty of oats and don't have to carry granite boulders from Granite Island anymore - kids are much lighter!
If you haven't visited Victor Harbor make sure you will add it your bucket list.
This is my first D.tube project, hope you like it and find it interesting : )
P.S. You can read in the comments the point about slave labor made by @choogirl and I was wondering about that myself. So I wanted to add a note about the horses:
The Clydesdale horses working the tram seem well looked after, with all kind of horse union rules looking after their well-being, such as
- load limit,
- number of trips limit,
- strict working hours,
- hot weather restrictions,
- early retirement benefit to green pastures (literally).
Also they don't have any other work left for them nowadays, so simply wouldn't exist if not the tram.
I hate animal abuse as much as anyone, but in this case I didn't have the feeling they are abused. Used yes, but not abused. What are your thoughts about animal labor?
▶️ DTube
▶️ IPFS
I feel sorry for that horse. There's plenty of technologies around now that don't involve using animal slave labour.
Thank you @choogirl, you making a valid point, so I had to add more about horses to the story above. Hope that answers yours and other viewers concerns.
!originalworks
The @OriginalWorks bot has determined this post by @steemulator to be original material and upvoted it!
To call @OriginalWorks, simply reply to any post with @originalworks or !originalworks in your message!