Jackman and McRoss at Battery Point – considered and rated as one of the best bakeries in Australia. No sign of Hugh. I fluked a park outside on the very narrow streets.

Salamanca Place has rows of sandstone buildings that were formerly warehouses for the port of Hobart Town. These have since been converted into restaurants, galleries and craft shops.

Laneway to Kelly’s steps

Near Constitution Dock – end of the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race.

Bust commemorating Roald Amundsen – Norwegian polar explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911.

I asked Roald what is was like in Antartctica and he replied, “Forbanna kaldt!”

The finest Battery Point transportation

Another laneway at Salamanca

Joseph Moir, a Scotsman arrived in Tasmania in 1829 and became a sucessful builder and businessman. He built this house at Taroona then started work on the Shot Tower.

The Shot Tower is a testament to Joseph Moir’s skills, the circular sandstone tower stands 58 metres high and is still one of the tallest buildings in Tasmania. The Shot Tower, built with the purpose of producing lead shot, is one of few remaining circular structure of its kind in the world.

Lead shot produced by dropping molten lead from the top of the tower into water below.

Looking up

Looking down

The original steps were deliberately built with thinner slabs of wood to be springy underfoot.

The Margate Train…at Margate is a series of shops built in the carriages. I couldn’t get on board with the concept.

Metal elephant – they resorted to trunk calls to attract passers-by.

At Inverawe Native Gardens we caught up with botanists Robert Brown and Jacques Labillardiere in the garden – Brown trying to outdo Labillardiere in the drinking game.

The estuary with oyster beds at Inverawe

Pied oystercatcher

New Holland honeyeater

Yellow wattle bird – the largest wattle bird and largest of the honeyeaters in Australia is endemic to Tasmania.

Watch your step in the garden!

Nestled beside the Hobart Rivulet that flows from kunanyi/Mount Wellington is Cascade Brewery – Australia’s oldest brewery built in 1824.

The old entrance gates

Origin – the first new beer since 1992 – with Mount Wellington water, Tasmanian barley, hops from Bushy Park and locally grown yeast.

A ham sandwich walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says we don’t serve food here.

For mathematicians to ponder…If you put root beer in a square glass, do you then have beer?

Oddly, this woman was trying to get in to the Female Convict Factory at Cascades, usually they tried to get out.

Memorial to the Convict women beside the Hobart Rivulet

The Hobart Rivulet is home to platypus. After a persistent search along some sections, we were given some local knowledge and were lucky to see one.

Unlike places such as Eungella in Queensland where they are seen in large pools, here they make their way up and down the rivulet in search of food.

We followed it for over 20 minutes.

Hobart Post Office 1905 on the way to dinner in the city.