The Wooden Boat Center of Tasmania

There is a fascinating place in Franklin, just of the road from us on the Huon river. The Wooden Boat Center of Tasmania offers a place to learn about wooden boat building by taking a tour as I did, or by enrolling in a course and building your own.

The boat above, made from huon pine, king billy pine and celery top pine (all of which are conifers, none of which are actual pines) is a thing of beauty. As you can see it is riveted together so that once the wood is wet and swells a bit, it'll be watertight.

Jackson Point Cemetery

After several tries, we finally found what the roadsign called a "Historic Catholic Cemetery". It was indeed just where it was indicated (100m from the highway), it was just hidden over a hill, behind a stand of trees, on a side road. I had to look on Google Maps to find it.

But here it is, on a hill overlooking the Huon River. If you are going to spend eternity in the ground, this seems like the place to be.

Franklin Market

On Sunday we popped in on the monthly Franklin market held at the Palais Theater this week. The logo for the market seems to be a Tasmanian Tiger. in the photo above you see the food cart of the local pasty maker.