Today’s photo is of Bellerive Oval where Australia are taking on South Africa in a one day international cricket match. The crowd capacity is set today for around 16,000 although its a bit too crowded for my tastes. And worse … they don’t sell full strength beer at the international matches !!!!

I deliberately wanted to show what a beautiful location it is set in with a park and beach between the ground and the river. The city of Hobart is across the river and to the right.

Here in Hobart we are having a burst of wintery weather with cold windy weather and last night snow was forecast down to 100 metres, a most unusual event when it happens. I felt a little ripped off when i woke up and there was no snow around my place or even my side of the river it seemed. We did have a couple of people at work who wandered in at various times in the morning thanks to the snow cutting some of their ways to work!

Tonight’s photo is of Hobart and the Port looking across the Derwent River from Bellerive that i took last night. I do like the way that the light of the city is shines on the sleet that was coming down. With the chill wind and rain i didn’t take as long as i would like to, hence the bit of a tree in one corner!

This evening the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza docked in Hobart Fresh from protesting the Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. More photos available at The Esperanza comes to town

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)

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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It looks worse than it is as the Lower Domain Highway is lit by orange street lights!

I am not sure what he was doing. He might have been an artist or he might have just been sitting reflecting. What ever the reason he had carried his chair out and was sitting on the sand at low tide.

The saddest thing in the world i have seen is a child’s grave. The relatives visit and leave toys for the child such as this blue puppydog.

Not something anyone of us want to see any time soon, the back of a Hearse

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