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xenithDay 1, Part 1
So we're escaping from Queenstown.
Further out than what you'd expect, there is a Queenstown information centre (boards set up, usually just before or after entering a town, that give you tourist information, maps and ads for local businesses) that offers a view of the town. Beyond that, there is a lot of very uninhabited (or inhabitable) landscape. A photo can't even attempt to capture it though.
Later on, I found a model map that shows the area. The "you are here" marker is wrong. It should be down where the roads meet; the main streets of the town are closer to my red line. The road running up and to the left is the road north (to the coast and then Launceston), the one running down parallels the railway for the first part, and the one running to the right goes to Hobart. That's the one we're one now, the wiggly bit just before the Iron Blow.
That's a similar view to the one I posted on Facebook from the phone, with Gormanston and Mt Owen in the background. The Iron Blow were pretty much where they started mining down this way, first with gold until they found copper. The lake out the back would be Lake Burbury, a man-made hydro lake, with a town (Crotty) underneath it.
From there we went onto Linda, where there was a art installation at the hotel. That's the café.
And then Gormanston. I have more photos of both that I'll put in their own posts so I can cross them off my Towns list.
Now we head back to town.
We had to stop and look at the football oval. It's another landmark in the town.
The next port of call was the HUB to look at the display in there, but there main room was full of people and it was too, too noisy :(
So we went next door to the Galley Museum.
Which has rooms full of photos
and stuff. Most of the stuff was in the rooms upstairs, which is good because if you try to read everything or even part of everything, downstairs, you have no room in your head for more information. But it was interesting to look at the photos of Linda, after we'd been there, and there's a lot a material on the Mt Lyell disaster, which I have no mentioned even thought it was the focus of the festival.
There was, as you might expect, a room a large geological display, including a small section of fluorescent ore and things. (I do like my camera very much sometimes.)
Then it was late, and time for tea, but there weren't many offerings of a reasonable price and most of them were full anyway. We ended up back at the Empire again, and they found us a table, and we only had to wait 40 minutes after ordering.
One last thing for the night, the Paragon Theatre over the road had a free film, the Dark Knight Rises, which I had managed not to see, so we thought we'd go and check it out.
On walking into the screen room, the first thing I notice is only the rear part of the room has seating.
And then, that seating is couches and arm chairs. And then, that it'd be fun to sit in the front row in a couch-- oooh, there's one free. With a coffee table in front too. The tree at the front sold crepes and hot drinks (although we had giant-sized popcorn). There were also blankets at the back, which we didn't know about unfortunately. It was a great way to watch a film, (so if you're down that way, check it out).
Then back to the hotel, where I managed to find the room (through the games room, into the dining room, into the bar, back into the dining room, into the foyer, up the stairs and then rest...) and went to bed.
So we're escaping from Queenstown.
Further out than what you'd expect, there is a Queenstown information centre (boards set up, usually just before or after entering a town, that give you tourist information, maps and ads for local businesses) that offers a view of the town. Beyond that, there is a lot of very uninhabited (or inhabitable) landscape. A photo can't even attempt to capture it though.
Later on, I found a model map that shows the area. The "you are here" marker is wrong. It should be down where the roads meet; the main streets of the town are closer to my red line. The road running up and to the left is the road north (to the coast and then Launceston), the one running down parallels the railway for the first part, and the one running to the right goes to Hobart. That's the one we're one now, the wiggly bit just before the Iron Blow.
That's a similar view to the one I posted on Facebook from the phone, with Gormanston and Mt Owen in the background. The Iron Blow were pretty much where they started mining down this way, first with gold until they found copper. The lake out the back would be Lake Burbury, a man-made hydro lake, with a town (Crotty) underneath it.
From there we went onto Linda, where there was a art installation at the hotel. That's the café.
And then Gormanston. I have more photos of both that I'll put in their own posts so I can cross them off my Towns list.
Now we head back to town.
We had to stop and look at the football oval. It's another landmark in the town.
The next port of call was the HUB to look at the display in there, but there main room was full of people and it was too, too noisy :(
So we went next door to the Galley Museum.
Which has rooms full of photos
and stuff. Most of the stuff was in the rooms upstairs, which is good because if you try to read everything or even part of everything, downstairs, you have no room in your head for more information. But it was interesting to look at the photos of Linda, after we'd been there, and there's a lot a material on the Mt Lyell disaster, which I have no mentioned even thought it was the focus of the festival.
There was, as you might expect, a room a large geological display, including a small section of fluorescent ore and things. (I do like my camera very much sometimes.)
Then it was late, and time for tea, but there weren't many offerings of a reasonable price and most of them were full anyway. We ended up back at the Empire again, and they found us a table, and we only had to wait 40 minutes after ordering.
One last thing for the night, the Paragon Theatre over the road had a free film, the Dark Knight Rises, which I had managed not to see, so we thought we'd go and check it out.
On walking into the screen room, the first thing I notice is only the rear part of the room has seating.
And then, that seating is couches and arm chairs. And then, that it'd be fun to sit in the front row in a couch-- oooh, there's one free. With a coffee table in front too. The tree at the front sold crepes and hot drinks (although we had giant-sized popcorn). There were also blankets at the back, which we didn't know about unfortunately. It was a great way to watch a film, (so if you're down that way, check it out).
Then back to the hotel, where I managed to find the room (through the games room, into the dining room, into the bar, back into the dining room, into the foyer, up the stairs and then rest...) and went to bed.
