Australia 2009/10 

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Tasmania - Hobart

Sunday 29^th November

An early flight and we are on our way to Tasmania and it's capital city of Hobart

All Australian states have very strict quarantine regulations, especially for fruit.	Kairen wanted to take the sniffer dog home...well there's a surprise!  Here he is jogging the luggage carousel.
Hobart reminded us of Manchester!	Wet and cold!
It was Sunday and everyone else had the sense to stay at home.	Al-fresco dining wasn't on our list of options....
...but some serious wine tasting was!	Kairen's into the Tasmanian wines already and planning some vineyard visits

Monday 30^th November

The next day was a bit clearer and the wind had dropped a bit.  We had become thoroughly chilled (cold) the day before.  We retraced some of our steps to enjoy the great architecture of Hobart, without the rain.

We had a fantastic seafood lunch in Mures, the main restaurant on the central quay
	still not many dining outside
Salamanca Square	The Lenna Hotel built 1880
Arthur's Circus a collection of old houses at Battery Point	The post boxes at Battery Point Post Office
Narryna - an old house that is now the heritage museum	St David's Park was originally Hobart's cemetery and was turned in a park in 1926.  They placed the moved headstones on walls.  They make interesting a sombre reading.  The early settlers lives were hard and short.
The architecture in Hobart is beautiful.  However, some of the planning decisions seem a bit dubious, with fairly ugly buildings being placed alongside charming old structures.
We used our UK National Trust cards to visit the site of the old Hobart gaol	Gene's in clink!
Kairen got to do her 'you shall be taken form this place.....'	Some of the old solitary confinement cells they have unearthed
Laurie's waiting for judgement
Mures is one of the best seafood restaurants in Hobart	Well there's a clean plate
Hobart's Old Wharf	The Ady Gil is getting ready to sail to the Antarctic to do battle with the Japanese whaling fleet
Leased to the Sea Shepherd organisation for $1 a year by Ady Gil, this futuristic $1.5m boat has just set the record for the circumnavigation of the World in just 60 days.	Two 540hp engines, constructed from carbon fibre and enough sound equipment to sink a whaling ship!
We chatted with the crewmember for quite some time	The ship operates under the UN Charter for nature that says if you see something illegal that is adversely affecting nature in international waters you are allowed to intervene
They hope that the speed and agility of the Ady Gil would 'help take the fight right up to the harpoon boats'	We continued along the beautiful Old Wharf
	The planning mess that is Hobart's skyline