Hobart Daily

This is another shot from the Craigborne dam i previously featured that is thanks to the drought presently at 10 percent of capacity and dropping.
The other reason i picked todays photo to use was I was feeling kind of basic and how much more basic than a bit of ground until you look and it [...]

Prompted by an article in the local paper reporting that the catchment level had reached 10% of capacity, i visited the Craig Borne Dam in the Coal River Valley north East of Hobart. What i saw was pretty drastic with a huge shoreline where the water usually was and a boat ramp high and dry. [...]

This is from Port Arthur and is one of Australia’s Premier attractions and an interesting place to visit unlike when it was a Penitentiary where it was a dark place to visit.
Sadly it has a more recent dark history when on this day in 1996, Martin Bryant launched a killing spree which cost 35 lives [...]

These are the same ruins i featured a few days ago on another blog in black and white

I thought i would also experiment with making a larger version of some of my pictures available including todays update. Naturally its still covered by copyright and can’t be used for commercial reasons etc but otherwise go for [...]

The front of The Mercury (Hobart’s newspaper) on Thursday carried pictures of an eerie dust storm at Jericho located to the north of Hobart as part of the extreme weather that we had and so Saturday morning i took a drive up to see what the area was like to produce such a dust storm. [...]