Our last few days in Brisbane were spent visiting, chatting and generally relaxing – a perfect combination. After a day in Kenmore, we then headed down to Byron Bay to stay for a couple of days. A side trip for lunch to Bangalow in the hinterland made a lovely diversion, but sadly it was then time to leave Brisbane. An early morning flight on April 6th saw us...
Verbing, or what grammar nerds refer to as denominalization, is a modern (and perhaps not very desirable) linguistic trend, but that is what we did today – we summitted Mount Coot-Tha. The worst culprits for verbing are sports commentators (” … will he/she medal in this event …”) but also business people (“… we need to...
Sometimes a day of slightly aimless meandering can unwittingly be very fulfilling. Having no specific purpose or target for the day means that you achieve all you set out to do and today was one of those days! We didn’t rush, but headed off mid-morning to walk up to Holman Park ferry stop. This should have been very relaxing until Anne shouted belatedly –...
A day of travel today …. However, our flight from Hobart was not until about 2pm, so for the morning we decided to head a little north of Hobart to Bonorong Wildlife Park. We got there a little time before the tour, so wandered around for a bit spending ages in front of cages looking for animals that were asleep, given that they were nocturnal! We did manage to...
The first adjective which comes to mind when describing MONA (The Museum of Old and New Art) is eclectic. Somehow though this doesn’t seem to do justice to the unique combination of art, architecture and experience which it represents. This experience started for us on the Mona Roma – a high speed catamaran from Bridge Street Pier in the centre out to...
We had been recommended by friends to visit the Wooden Boat Company in Franklin on the Huon River and figured what’s not to like – wood and boats – a perfect combination. The drive was about 40 minutes and the last stretch followed the river. The Wooden Boat Company is in a shed on the riverfront by a small marina. Their aim is simple – to...
Today was a day to start exploring Hobart and what better way to do that than wandering around town. We started by heading into the main shopping area stopping at a couple of bookshops and, in the second, found a 40th Anniversary edition of Possum Magic for Alex. It is a book we remember well from when we lived here, so will take a copy home for him. I also found a...
On our way down to Hobart we decided to take a diversion – a similar diversion to the one made by thousands of convicts from 1833 onwards – to Port Arthur. The differences between our journey and theirs were manifold – ours took us just an hour and a half along the A3 and then the A9 while theirs took them a day or so of sailing along the Derwent...
We are now heading south and we had been recommended en route to visit Maria Island, so we booked a morning ferry across to the island from Triabunna. The ferry takes just half an hour and lands at a jetty on the island. Maria Island – jetty From the jetty we walked initially past the silos (used to store cement in the 1920s) and headed along the path to the...
With another day staying at Freycinet, we decided to explore a little further afield. We started though with a browse around a couple of other sites in the National Park. We started with Honeymoon Bay – perhaps not entirely appropriate for us, but we could see the appeal. A beautiful small bay ….. Honeymoon Bay – Freycinet National Park The next...