Hobart Daily

Sporting and outdoor goods retailer Anaconda opened this morning at the Harvey Norman Centre, Cambridge Park near Hobart. Promising a free gift bag to the first 500 customers when they opened at 8am, they got many times that number lined up and waiting for the doors to open. If you look really closely over the […]

(riders dressed as Lighthorsemen, Dawn Service Hobart 25 April 2008
Anzac day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. The word ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps whose soldiers became known as Anzacs.
When the first world war broke out […]

I don’t have any romance related pictures appropriate to Valentines Day but i do have this picture of a heart drawn with seaweed on the beach at Wineglass Bay on the east coast of Tasmania that i originally featured on my other daily photoblog Bicheno Daily.
Happy Valentines Day!

Today in Hobart its regatta day and I’ve tried cramming a lot into one photo. The Regatta Grounds (centre) with the City of Hobart behind and Mount Wellington behind that. Also the flagship for this years regatta HMAS Parramatta, an Anzac class frigates.
For closer looks

The “sideshow alley” set up waiting for the Hobart Regatta which runs Saturday to Monday this week and gives us the Monday as a public holiday.

A picture of where the Regatta Grounds are in relation to the city. Normally you can see Mt Wellington in the background but all day today there have been […]