Hobart Harbour
We wake up every morning and sit and have breakfast looking at this! The harbour is a never ending source of enjoyment for us as we watch the ferries ply their trade, the yachts come and go, the fishing fleet discharge their cargos and restock, warships of the world dock and cruise ships make port and disgorge and reload their passengers. Sometimes the Tasmanian Police Bagpipers will send the cruise ships on their way and often a children's choir is here to welcome them. We see fairy penguins, seals, porpoises, sea eagles, ducks, gulls and cormorants right off this wharf! We watched the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race finish right here. The triathlon athletes swam here. It is our wide screen TV and we will miss it dearly.
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The low angle sun here makes the early morning harbour pretty special. These fishing boats come and go on about a two week schedule, it seems. |
Looking through the fishing fleet to Mt. Wellington with a light dusting of snow this early September morning..... |
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The Hobart Marine Board took delivery of these bollards in 1953, from the same foundry that cast Picasso's "Negroid" in 1952. What do you think? Is it a coincidence they look like this or did someone in the foundry have a fun day? |
On a rare day we woke to a heavy fog. Coincidently, this was the morning of a huge terrorist training exercise and the street and wharf in front of us were full of policemen from all over Tasmania. |
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These sunsets just stopped us in our tracks. |
Mid-winter sunrise.... |
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An evening race running down toward Sandy Bay |
One of our last sails. Mary and I took the boat down to the South Arm and back on a Saturday afternoon. |
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This is the May Queen, a 19th century working boat that I am helping to restore. I have been replacing the lanyards at the base of the shrouds. |
Diamond Princess, a huge passenger liner carrying about 4000 people docked here several times over the summer. She dwarfed the entire harbour! |
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| The Lady Nelson and Windward Bound tied up at the Elizabeth Street Wharf. I crewed on the Lady Nelson until she was taken into dry dock for extensive repairs this winter. | The low angle sun and frequent squalls made for many, many rainbows until winter set in and the rains dried up. |
