Old and New
Filed under: Hobart Port and Waterfront, Hobart Summer Festival
The Old and the New, the 2007 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Winner Wild Oats past the bow of the Lady Nelson, a replica of the original vessel in service with the Royal Navy 1800 – 1825 primarily as a survey vessel.
Clown Cleaners
Every year as part of the Hobart Summer Festival the centrepiece is always the Taste of Tasmania which attracts around 200,000 people during its annual run seeking to eat and drink the best that Tasmania has to offer.
As well as the Taste itself it also attracts busker’s and street performers who entertain the masses. I took a quick visit to the Taste today and by far the highlight was the clown cleaners wandering around causing trouble and directing traffic (pedestrian)
Fire on the Queens Domain
This photo from Lindisfarne looking across the River
I noticed a fire last night and i had the chance so i grabbed the cameras and headed off to get a few photos. Turned out the fire i could see was a small one (7 ha) on the Queens Domain and while the fire website declares the fire contained there is not much to see (as the last photo suggests!)
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Finish
Wild Oats XI crossing the finish line of the Sydney Hobart Yacht race to claim its thirds consecutive line honours victory at 10.24am Friday completing the 628 nautical mile race in one day,21 hours and 24 minutes.
The Separate Prison
From outside of Hobart today at Port Arthur, South East of Hobart.
The Separate Prison at Port Arthur was a Model Prison for two reasons:
1. It was modeled on the experimental Pentonville Prison in London and featured similar conditions right down to the conditions and furnishings.
2. The principal of the Separate Prison was an advanced concept for its day and substituted silence for the lash, taught the imates useful trades and subjected convicts to the “moralising” influences of religion and was considered a “model” of instruction and reformation.
A brief video from the Prison: