Monday 12 January 2015
We had a sleep in, then off to the supermarket to
restock.
As it was a lovely fine day,
and no more of these are forecast for this week, we headed to the top of Mount
Wellington. The views were amazing, even
with mild haziness. The geology and
flora at the summit are definitely alpine. I was quite surprised at how many
walking options there were on Mount Wellington.
The road to the summit has a series of gates which can be used to close
the road as needed, and then a sign at the bottom with lights indicating where
the road is currently closed. We had a picnic lunch at the summit and then
descended.
On the road back into
Hobart’s city centre there are homes very much perched on the side of the
hill. Many homes had garages at street
level, with stairs leading down to where the house presumably is below view
from the street. In one particularly
steep section there was just a picket type fence with a gate in at street level
and a mailbox each – presumably there was a house somewhere below each mailbox.
The Tourist Information Centre in the city was able
to give us a map of the city, including parking. They also gave us a map with details of all
the inner city public toilets – this would be particularly useful if travelling
with very young children.
This afternoon we went to the Tasmanian Royal
Botanic Gardens, which are the second oldest Botanic Gardens in Australia. We saw “The Patch” from the “Gardening
Australia” show. Hayden was quite
disappointed; it was roughly as I had expected but perhaps not quite as neat
and tidy. We also saw a thirty year old
Huon pine – this had a diameter of five to six centimetres and was about
one metre high – no wonder the Huon pine forests are expected to take at least
one thousand years to recover from logging!
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