It’s not just large public buildings and infrastructure that are lit up to celebrate Dark Mofo in Hobart … Hotels and homes are also glowing crimson through the long winter nights
Tag: Tasmania
Dark Mofo 2016 – Dark Park
It’s deepest darkest June in Hobart, Tasmania and that can mean only one thing….
Winter is coming…so it must be festival time in Tasmania
Tasmanians may appear blase about the cold, but they know how to make the most of winter
Riding the West Coast Wilderness Railway
The West Coast Wilderness Railway on Tasmania’s wild west coast uses the Swiss ‘Abt’ rack and pinion drive system to climb through mountainous terrain, one of the few surviving railways in the world to do so.
Best parks in Hobart to see autumn colour
Hobart does a good line in autumn colour, and its parks and gardens are some of the best places to enjoy the spectacle
The Turning of the Fagus
Each autumn in Tasmania a unique observance takes place. A marker of the changing seasons assumes an almost pagan mysticism as flocks of goretexed pilgrims make their way to a handful of sub-alpine locations around the state to see the Turning of the Fagus.
The hidden charms of Bushy Park
…cool nights signal a chemical change in the leaves of poplars planted as windbreaks on paddocks of rich soil as well as other magnificent oaks, elms and other deciduous exotics…
Lost World and South Wellington
Spectacular views from this short but quite challenging walk on kunany / Mount Wellington
A summer afternoon stroll at Tranmere
While many of the backyards adjoining the foreshore are fenced, others tumble informally out into the shared public space…
Roadtrippin’ the West Coast
For many many years the minerals contained in these rocks was the financial bedrock for communities on the West Coast like Queenstown, Gormanston and Zeehan, whose fortunes rose and fell with commodity prices for those minerals.