My plan for photos from the Wooden Boat Festival is to do two posts (of which this is the first) with a mixture of photos of things that I found interesting or that give a flavour of the event. To make it easier, the order of these photos is determined by the order they appear in the Gallery, unless there is a reason to put some in a particular order.
Then I'll do one posts of the various ships.
And then I'll do some focus on a particular boat/ship, until I get bored of them.
The second weekend in Hobart is the weekend of the Regatta, with a holiday on the Monday. It's also the weekend of the Hobart Cup (horse racing), and every second year, the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. Any one of those events obviously attracts many extra people into the city. All three at once... I haven't seen the final figures for the WBF attendance, but over 100,000 seems likely. If that doesn't sound like much, the population of Hobart is only twice that.
I've been to the Festival every year since, hmmm, I have a poster from 2001 advertising the Endeavour being there, so I went that year. I had thoughts this year of not bothering, there didn't seem to be anything new going on, but... this year there was no entry fee and they took down the fences. One big change as a result: in the past the event has been confined to one end of the waterfront (around Constitution Dock/Elizabeth St pier area), this year it was spread right across to Princes Wharf (adjoining Salamanca Place) and the edges sort of drifted out to the adjoining business premises.
Anyway, enough talking. Onto the photos.
( Photos! )
Then I'll do one posts of the various ships.
And then I'll do some focus on a particular boat/ship, until I get bored of them.
The second weekend in Hobart is the weekend of the Regatta, with a holiday on the Monday. It's also the weekend of the Hobart Cup (horse racing), and every second year, the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. Any one of those events obviously attracts many extra people into the city. All three at once... I haven't seen the final figures for the WBF attendance, but over 100,000 seems likely. If that doesn't sound like much, the population of Hobart is only twice that.
I've been to the Festival every year since, hmmm, I have a poster from 2001 advertising the Endeavour being there, so I went that year. I had thoughts this year of not bothering, there didn't seem to be anything new going on, but... this year there was no entry fee and they took down the fences. One big change as a result: in the past the event has been confined to one end of the waterfront (around Constitution Dock/Elizabeth St pier area), this year it was spread right across to Princes Wharf (adjoining Salamanca Place) and the edges sort of drifted out to the adjoining business premises.
Anyway, enough talking. Onto the photos.
( Photos! )
