Month: November 2013

adventuring: the theatre royal

(Apologies for photo quality . . . I forgot my camera, so these were all taken on my almost three-year-old iPhone 4.) After my excursion to Knocklofty, I walked down to Campbell Street to do the tour of the Theatre Royal. This was another one of those things I’d...

adventuring – Knocklofty

Monday 4 November.  I was in Hobart so I got the Walking West Hobart map out again and wandered up to Knocklofty Reserve. Well, wandered isn’t exactly the right word. There’s a footpath between Salvator Road and Poets Road and the map says this about it: ‘steep with handrail’....

12 of 12 november 2013

Tuesday the 12th of November was my second day back at work after my extended leave. My final break thing to do was house sit for Lil Sis and Mr Tall while they were away, so I got their apartment to myself on Monday night. 1 of 12 –...

adventuring – Hobart rivulet

Last year the West Hobart Environment Network produced a map called Walking West Hobart, which shows a lot of the walking tracks through West Hobart and points out some of the features of interest in the suburb. I lived there many years ago and, although my main way of...

adventuring – the shot tower

Continuing on the theme of adventuring and exploring places I haven’t been to in a very long time, or have never been to, last Monday I caught a bus to Taroona, south of Hobart, to visit the Shot Tower. I’m fairly sure I climbed this tower as a child,...