Photos from Around Hobart

We have started to travel around Hobart on day jaunts a bit now.  The stone bridge above in Richmond about 20 minutes NE of Hobart was built in 1823 and was the first road bridge in Australia.  It is still in daily use.  The land here was shaped by continental drift, upheaval, subsidence and glacial activity.  The main rock formation here is dolerite, an igneous rock found in huge sheets only in Tasmania, Antarctica and South Africa.  The hard rock gives the Tasmanian Coastline its unique shape.  The broad areas shown below are rift valleys. They are surrounded on either side by steep terrain.  It is almost impossible to capture digitally what our eyes are taking in, but hopefully these photos will convey a little bit of what we see as we explore.      In the hills above Cygnet, about 40 km SE of Hobart  Meadowbank Vineyard south of Richmond Craigow Vineyard on the road to Richmond has to have some of the most beautiful land in the area. This is the oldest Catholic Church in Australia.  It was built in 1836. On the road above Hobart that leads to Mt. Wellington near Ferntree

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