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| Signal station Mount Nelson |
Hi All,
Our day off today. We left the house around 11 and headed to Hobart.
We had a quick stroll around the market at Salamanca. They do have a casual area so the stalls do change from week to week. We said hello to Ann and on the way out i purchased a flip chart of Tasmanian trees.
We drove to a park closer to the Baha'i Centre. We wanted to visit as not for the purposes of conversion but because a>the cafe is supposed to be very good and b>the building is supposed to be of sustainable construction. Unfortunately the cafe was closed and because of conferences in progress we couldn't really look around so it was a bit of a lost cause apart from finding a really poorly designed pedestrian crossing where 2 cars drove through after we crossed while the light was still red.
We then used the portable GPS to find the museum & art centre. The hilarity of this was revealed when we returned to the car, see the picture. Although to be fair we were more concerned about grinding noises from the back of the car on the kerb when i reversed than noticing the surroundings. The building is being renovated so there were only a couple of exhibits. However the Antarctic one took a couple of hours and we did skim through it a little bit. We had a pretty decent little lunch and good coffee at the museum cafe when we arrived.
We called into the the Lark Distillery on our way back and had a pretty ordinary coffee.
Departing Hobart Susan suggested we visit Mount Nelson the site of the old signal station next to the Southern Outlet road.
The views were quite good however for some reason the toilets were closed as was the cafe/bistro.
We returned to Woodbridge and had some excellent rump steak for tea and slouched around watching television.
Tomorrow i believe we are going to the wooden boat festival at Kettering. It's quite a bus weekend what with the Hobart Cup tomorrow,the Hobart regatta and the Festivale in Launceston.
Night Folks
Simon
Mount Nelson
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