Unconfirmed via a twitter post, Seven news is reporting the Tsunami measured at 12 cm high (a little under 5 inches) and Inundation is not expected according to ABC News.

Not much to show, just some flowers at the side of the road to mark the place where two people died yesterday on the South Arm Highway. It was part of a horror day on Tasmanian Roads where 9 people were killed in accidents on the State’s roads. To put it in perspective, the road toll for the whole of last year was I believe 48, so nine in a day is shocking and it seems unnecessary. People weren’t driving to the conditions, people were driving dangerously and some people were just unlucky, being killed by people not doing one of the first two.

So i am asking all my readers, take care on the roads and drive to the conditions. Some courtesy doesn’t hurt either. But don’t end up with just some flowers to mark where you died unnecessarily.

The Steve Irwin returned to Hobart on Friday fresh from the Southern Ocean where it has been protesting and trying to obstruct the Japanese whaling fleet and their whaling for “research” purposes.

The arrival was not without incident with Federal Police meeting it with a search warrant and confiscated the ship’s log book and video footage.

The footage seized dipicted the slaughter of a whale, first shot with an explosive harpoon and then pulled alongside the Japanese ship where it was shot 7 times in 20 minutes with a shotgun. It was this footage that caused the ship to return to port early when information was received a Japanese Security vessel had been deployed with commandos to intercept the sea shepherd and seize the footage

A bonus shot today showing the damage to the Steve Irwin from a collision with a Japanese Whaler.

I thought with all the world wide attention being put on F1 driver Mark Webbers accident yesterday on the Fortescue Bay Road while competing in his own charity event that I would post a topical picture of the area. This is Fortescue Bay, part of the Tasman National Park and a really beautiful part of the world.

A year after the fire at Hobart’s Myer Store its still in the news as debate and uncertainty reigns about what and even whether the Hobart Myer will be rebuilt. I thought i would look back over the events as i posted them this time last year from the night of the fire to the day after with just the shell remaining to when the demolition started after the shell was deemed unsafe to stay standing although the front door was left for a while.

This was supposed to be a photo of my Firefox t-shirts that arrived a day too late to wear on Firefox download day but instead turned into some strange version of the favourite kids story the fox and the hound with my dog determined to be in the picture (its almost dinner time for him so he is determined to be anywhere i can see him to remind me it is dinner time!)

The media was collected outside the executive building where the Premiers office is this morning bouyed by the rumour that Premier Paul Lennon was going to resign today and by late morning The Premier had announced his resignation.

I would have liked to spend more time trying to get a decent shot of something more interesting but i had to be in work plus i only had my compact camera rather than my digital SLRs and lens.

Here in Hobart we have been hit with unpleasant weather with gale force winds and rain. At its peak a weather station near to my home recorded a wind speed of 176 km per hour. My home suffered minimal damage with a few roof tiles lost, a dog bowl lost and a frightened dog who got to sleep inside.

In the city this morning there was debris everywhere including today’s photo where part of a tree had come down and the wood cleared. Elsewhere power lines were down and roofs off.

A personally pleasing headline. Thanks to a comment from Maeria on my  Open for Business post and follow up from  Maeria i was able to tip off  The Mercury that the canceled fire sale at Myer Hobart  that it was  implied everything was damaged and  had to be destroyed. The next day … front page.

Australia now has a new government after a dramatic swing against the current government in the election and according to what i have heard, the biggest swing since the 1970s. So goodbye Prime Minister John Howard, hello Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.