:11:01
[Girls chattering]
:11:05
The mountain comes to Mohammed.
:11:08
A hanging rock
comes to Mr. Hussey.
:11:12
More than 500 feet high
she is.
:11:14
Volcanic, of course.
Thousands of years old.
:11:18
A million years old,
Mr. Hussey, or thereabouts.
:11:22
Yes, well,
that'd be right.
:11:25
Thousands, millions.
:11:28
Devil of a long time, anyway,
in a manner of speakin'.
:11:32
Only a million years ago.
Quite a recent eruption, really.
:11:39
The rocks all around
Mount Macedon itself
:11:42
must be all of
350 million years old.
:11:48
Siliceous lava forced up
from deep down below.
:11:55
Soda trachytes
:11:58
extruded in a highly
viscous state,
:12:02
building the steep-sided mountains
we see in Hanging Rock.
:12:08
And quite young, geologically speaking.
Barely a million years.
:12:14
Waiting a million years
just for us.
:12:48
More cake, Michael?
:12:51
No, thank you,
Aunt. I'm...
:12:54
I think I'll just, um,
stretch my legs a bit.
:12:57
Oh, don't go too far
and be careful.