Salamanca Market Again

On the way to the market, we passed the Daci & Daci Bakery and saw some amazing confections in the window.

Hop-on Hop-off Hobart

You can't get a feel for a city without a Hop-on Hop-off bus tour. since we did this just before Christmas, I called it a HoHoHo...Hop-on Hop-off Hobart...tour.

Hartz Mountains

The Hartz Mountains in the summer are filled with small colorful flowers that bring the greens of the alpine meadows to life.

Cornelian Bay Cemetery

In Cornelian Bay, just north of Hobart along the Derwent river is what seems to be the main cemetery for the area. On this sunny day, we see that we are again standing at the foot of Mount Wellington.

Salamanca Market

Salamanca market is festive in the Christmas season and as time get shorted for shopping, the crowds get larger. Even the crowds of stuffed Tasmanian Devils is larger.

I realize that this months late, but so much has happened, I am way behind in blogging about our travels.

Fossils at Poverty Point

Another place we really had to make another trip to Poverty Point to see the fossils. Unlike our previous trip, there was no rain storm coming at us this time.

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart is a place we revisited because they have a special exhibit on now about the Tasmanian Devil.

Another Visit to Bruny Island

On our first visit to Bruny Island, we only just got the the southern part of the island. This, naturally, demands a second visit to see the parts we missed the first time. To give you an idea of the changeability and locality of weather here, you can see to the west of us that there is a rainstorm on the mainland. Meanwhile, there's no rain where we are standing.

Out and About on a Saturday

Not far from us, a short ways south along the coast is the village of Margate. Here we find a curious shopping center. A large fraction of the shopping is located an old train that is parked on a length of track here. In this train is a restaurant, the Pancake train.

North Hobart

On one of our visits to North Hobart to see a movie at the State Theater, we did some shopping just to see what we could see. I took a few images to show you the colors we find when out and about.

Lower Longley Cemetery

This is a cemetery we visited back in the winter and since Jeanne was here, we thought we'd stop by for look in the warmer season.

Mount Wellington

When last we climbed (in our car, we're not silly!) to the top of Mount Wellington, it was winter and we were greeted by clouds and a brief snow squall. This time was entirely different: it was summer and we were greeted by clouds and a brief snow squall. See? Entirely different.

Blackmans Bay

Our house sit this summer in Tasmania is in Blackmans Bay. On one end of the bay is a rocky outcropping. Around the corner is a blowhole but we haven't been there yet.

Adventure Bay

Adventure Bay is on the north shore of the southern part of Bruny island, just south of the neck that joins the two parts. It is a beautiful and historic part of the island.

Home!

Today is our first full day back in North America. We are working to adjust to our new digs and relearning to drive on the right. We've ordered a new bed frame (the mattress is here and is doing its job already) and are working on opening a bank account. Soon you won't be able to tell us from a regular Washingtonian (?)

Truganini Point

Bruny Island is divided into two parts connected by a long thin strip of land. On the northern end of the neck, as it is called, is Truganini Point. There is a lookout on the highest point here that is about 300,000,000 steps up from the platform from which these photos were taken. Not being in the mood for complete exhaustion before lunch, I did not climb the stairs to top.

Dennes Point, Bruny Island

Dennes Point is at the northern end of North Bruny Island. Standing here and looking over the water is to look back at mainland Tasmania.

Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens

A stop by the Botanical Gardens in Hobart in the summer is a real treat. The flowers are glorious.

Hobart Waterfront

A visit to the waterfront in Hobart on a sunny day in summer is quite different than in winter. Most notably, in the photo above, we see a cruise ship docked.

Mawson's Hut

In central Hobart, near the wharf, is a replica of the hut that Mawson and the men (for they were all men) on his expedition to the Antarctic built to life in while there.

St. Luke's Cemetery

Naturally, St. Luke's also has a cemetery. It had fewer appealing markers in it, so I bring you just a taste of what we saw.

I found the poem on the one above to be interesting. I'm really not quite sure how to understand the intent here. It seems to suggest that the young man choose to end it all. But if that were the case, it would be unlikely that he'd be buried here. So I don't know what this is all about.

The Cemetery of St. John's Catholic Church

St. John's Catholic Church is not a place that we visited. It is oldest still-functioning Catholic Church in Tasmania. However, it seemed to be closed on the day we visited, so we went to the cemetery instead.

St. Luke's Anglican Church

Although there are older churches in Tasmania, all have been mostly or completely rebuilt. This church, built in 1836 is, in the stone work at least, as it was originally built. The tower and the walls are entirely original.

Port Arthur Prison

In the early afternoon, we reached Port Arthur under a clear blue sky. The general admission tickets start with a boat ride around the harbor with some information to orient you to the place. Above is a view of the main prison dormitory.

The Devli's Kitchen

Our tour of Pirates Bay has led us finally to the Devil's Kitchen. This is another example of the ocean eroding the coastline to create not a blowhole or an arch but a long, deep notch.

Tasman Arch

A short walk from the blowhole is the Tasman Arch. This is another example of an ocean cave with a collapsed roof.

Blowhole

Our next stop was a visit to a blowhole. This blowhole is separated from the shore so that all you see if a pool of water and the blowhole.

Tesselated Pavement

Just a little way along the coast, we come to the Tessellated Pavement.

Pirates Bay

Before reaching Port Arthur, we thought a couple narrow necks of land that connect the nearly-island chunks of land to the mainland. One of these is at Eagle Neck on Pirates Bay Drive.

The view above is looking SSE and you can see the narrow rock called the Totem Pole. Unless I am mistaken (and this is always possible), this figures into the Australian Series The Kettering Incident (check it out on Amazon Prime).

Dunalley Lookout

So, we finally arrived in Tasmania, picked up Jeannie, checked in with our housesitting hosts, and took our hosts to the airport. After 10,000+ km and an overnight ferry ride, we are finally in our next house sit.

Our first trip out to see the sights took us to Dunalley to enjoy the lookout there.