My flight leaving from Victoria on 27 Dec 2002 with connections to Hobart, some 27 hours away... and then to Antarctica |
A brief stop in Hawaii allowed a little stretching |
Flying into Sydney noted downtown, the bridge, and the Opera house |
This shot notes Bondi Beach in the lower half and Manly in the upper. See the Australia 2000 page for more pictures! |
Hobart has a lot of older homes in the downtown region |
Hobart's waterfront |
In late December Hobart hosts the annual sailboat race from Sydney to Hobart |
Standing infront of the winning vessel for 2002 |
Lines used for rigging |
During late December, Hobart hosts the 'Taste of Tassie', where the whole city becomes alive and the waterfront hosts wine tasting and lots of entertainment |
Looking south onto Salamanca and to downtown |
On Saturdays in Salamanca there is a huge outdoor market where you can buy just about anything |
Fresh veggies |
Baby carrots |
Hobart has a nice cycling trail that runs northwest from downtown. Remember to ride on the left |
View from Mt. Wellington. This is where you could find my Organ Pipes cache |
Neat bushes |
Tassie has a lot of rainforest with tree ferns, such as in Mt. Field National Park |
Rainforest waterfall |
Patterns in the tree bark |
View onto Wineglass Bay, on one very wet day |
Kelp mixed with sea foam |
Bonnie poses next to the second oldest bridge in Australia |
Quackers! |
Neat flowers |
Stuffed penguins for sale at Hobart's "Antarctic Adventure", which closed down in November 2003 |
In southern Tassie you can visit the "Airwalk", that lets you walk through the trees. You can also find my Airwalk cache here |
Not a good place for people that don't like heights! |
Fishing in central Tassie. The orange smoke is from a bushfire (=forestfire) across the lake. There's yet another cache of mine hidden near this location |
Drinking beers was a lot more successful than our fishing attempts! |
An ecinda -- sort of like a porcupine |
Close-up of the spines |
"So", the proud father... |
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