31 Wednesday Oct 2018
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It’s been a colourful month. Colourful recycling.
Colours of Hobart waterfront and the Hobart Brewing Company.
Colours of Maria Island.
Colours of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens.
Colours of our “happy jar” at work.
This is my contribution to Su’s “changing seasons”
26 Friday Oct 2018
Posted in days out, one with nature
Maria Island is a delight. An island of history, of beauty, an island with no vehicles, no shops. A place to relax and connect with nature.
The island is a thirty minute ferry off the east coast of Tasmania. The Painted Cliffs are stunning coloured sandstone sculptured by the sea and wind.
The Fossil Cliffs are limestone rocks containing numerous and varied fossils.
There are white beaches, open spaces, bush tracks.
The historic settlement of Darlington has been a convict probation station, a camp for whalers and sealers, a Victorian resort. The island has housed a cement works along with farming and fishing.
It is now a National Park and wildlife sanctuary. As well as wombats, there are wallabies and numerous bird species.
25 Thursday Oct 2018
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We’ve spent the day on Maria Island. An island off the east cost of Tasmania.
I’ll write about it later but I wanted to share these photos of wombats. Wild wombats on the island that are very healthy and very tolerant of walkers with cameras. In total we saw 21 wombats, on grass, in a barn, crossing the footpath, one with a youngster.
“Since the late 1960s Maria Island has become a kind of Noah’s Ark, as a number of threatened species have been introduced here in a bid to protect their kind. The very things that made the island a convict settlement, now make it an ideal refuge for plant and animal species that are elsewhere under threat.”
20 Saturday Oct 2018
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The gardens are looking colourful in this spring season of their 200th anniversary year.
19 Friday Oct 2018
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Hobart has its own tall ship. A replica of “Lady Nelson”. It’s always a joy to see her at the waterfront. A contrast to the huge cruise ships that visit our city.
The original “Lady Nelson” ship was built in Deptford, UK in 1799. She sailed to Sydney on her maiden voyage in 1800.
From there, she made multiple voyages to Norfolk Island and was the first ship to bring Europeans to Tasmania in 1803. She explored the east coast of Australia and was a valued link for the new settlements. She also sailed to New Zealand.
15 Monday Oct 2018
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My photo a day challenges this month have been colour themes. Here are a few of my pics.
09 Tuesday Oct 2018
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At the moment, my photo a day challenges are colours. On Sunday, the day was orange.
At the waterfront, the Australian Antarctic Ice Breaker ship in is port. There is also a new pilot boat. When we stopped for a coffee, it was served in an orange cup.
The day was orange, with blue skies 🙂
02 Tuesday Oct 2018
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Pretty cool place to do music practice. It made me think of my daughters, a decade ago, the sound of trumpet, saxophone, flute, keyboard and drums in our home.
