On the Platform
Cooler weather today but that didn’t stop some swimmers hitting the water like these ones at Nugrove Beach.
By the water at Cremorne, South East of Hobart. While you can’t tell from the picture there was a current of the water going out at a fast walking pace.
Australia day at Kingston Beach
Filed under: Beaches, Events, Kingston, Blackmans Bay, The Channel and The Huon
Today is Australia day which commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet in Australia in 1788 and is a holiday in all states and territories of Australia. Around the country like here at Kingston Beach there were celebrations to mark the occassion.
The day is controversal with Indigenous Australians who see the date as marking the destruction of their culture and there are annual protests refering to the day as “Invasion Day” and have been campaigning to have the date moved to the day the Government officially apologised for past actions.
Boathouses at Taroona
Today’s picture, boathouses at Taroona. Today’s weather wasn’t good for boating with gale force winds and the third strongest gust of wind since it started being measured here in Hobart in 1944 at 124 km/. If you had of been on top of Mt Wellington then it would have been gusts of up to 150 km/h!
Elsewhere thanks to the weather several national parks were closed to bushwalkers, lanes were closed on the Tasman Bridge and some bushfires broke out at various places in the state. A dust storm also blew over the city several times but i didn’t get the chance to photograph it.
Beach Volleyball
In the summer months Kingston Beach is popular with beach volleyball teams.