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xenithDay 1, Part 1
Day 1, Part 2
Now to finish this off, so I can get onto interesting things. Not there are isn't anything interesting in here, but there's not much space for them.
Sunday morning, and there is a lot to do today, including everything we didn't get done yesterday. Fortunately, Queenstown runs on country time*, so we won't have to hurry. (*This is a phenomena noticeable in smaller towns were time seems to run slower so you get more done in a given time period. Handy if you have a lot to do. Annoying when you are waiting for something to open/close/arrive.)
First off is the street market, where they closed the main street and had stalls along the sides. I bought some handmade soaps (8 for $5), some cheap postcards and a ceramic horse. Have not decided if I like the horse or not, but it's sitting on the top shelf of the tallest bookshelf.
After this, it was back to the HUB to look at their display, and it was much quieter this time. Along one wall was series of panels about the Mt Lyell disaster, on the other a collection of photos from the early days of mining in the area. I didn't take any photos with the camera. It was noisy and obvious. The phone less so, so I made copies of the panels along the wall. The first of them is above.
One table had a number of "Do you recognise these" photos, another had had various manuscripts including a plan of Queenstown c1902 and the third had correspondence relating to the fire. The practicalities of mass deaths.
Next stop, Mt Lyell General Manager’s Office where there were art displays and stuff. This reminds me of something I'd read not much before, about the first manager Robert Sticht in his timber-lined office dealing with the problems of his works, but I can't quite remember it.
From there, we went off to find the Rescue Re-enactment train. On the way we found a specialty timbers sawmill, which had a display going on. That's a half-hearted photo :)
Queen River
We did find the train, but that's for another post.
A last look around the town, at the market again and some of the exhibits (passers-by tired knots in the rope as a commerative/cooperative art project)
and then we were on our way home.
Lake Plimsoll, glacial and dammed lake, part of theAnthony Power Development
A brief stop in Tullah (one time mining town, and later workers' village during construction of the hydro-schemes) for sugar replenishment.
We came down via Burnie, but after some discussion, decided to go home via the scenic route, past Cradle Mountain.
We got to talking about the mountain, and I said I hadn't been there except for a biology excursion twenty years ago, also I'd never seen Dove Lake.
So we took the extra-scenic route, and drove in to the car park for Dove Lake.
And had a chat with a friendly local, who wanted to make quite sure that the camera wasn't edible.
On the way out of the park, the camera battery died :( This was its last photo *sniff*
I still had the phone camera, but it wasn't quite up to the job. This is the only decent photo it gave me.
I did play with using the video camera, but it need some practice and the "best" way to share it is via Youtube.
Day 1, Part 2
Now to finish this off, so I can get onto interesting things. Not there are isn't anything interesting in here, but there's not much space for them.
Sunday morning, and there is a lot to do today, including everything we didn't get done yesterday. Fortunately, Queenstown runs on country time*, so we won't have to hurry. (*This is a phenomena noticeable in smaller towns were time seems to run slower so you get more done in a given time period. Handy if you have a lot to do. Annoying when you are waiting for something to open/close/arrive.)
First off is the street market, where they closed the main street and had stalls along the sides. I bought some handmade soaps (8 for $5), some cheap postcards and a ceramic horse. Have not decided if I like the horse or not, but it's sitting on the top shelf of the tallest bookshelf.
After this, it was back to the HUB to look at their display, and it was much quieter this time. Along one wall was series of panels about the Mt Lyell disaster, on the other a collection of photos from the early days of mining in the area. I didn't take any photos with the camera. It was noisy and obvious. The phone less so, so I made copies of the panels along the wall. The first of them is above.
One table had a number of "Do you recognise these" photos, another had had various manuscripts including a plan of Queenstown c1902 and the third had correspondence relating to the fire. The practicalities of mass deaths.
Next stop, Mt Lyell General Manager’s Office where there were art displays and stuff. This reminds me of something I'd read not much before, about the first manager Robert Sticht in his timber-lined office dealing with the problems of his works, but I can't quite remember it.
From there, we went off to find the Rescue Re-enactment train. On the way we found a specialty timbers sawmill, which had a display going on. That's a half-hearted photo :)
Queen River
We did find the train, but that's for another post.
A last look around the town, at the market again and some of the exhibits (passers-by tired knots in the rope as a commerative/cooperative art project)
and then we were on our way home.
Lake Plimsoll, glacial and dammed lake, part of theAnthony Power Development
A brief stop in Tullah (one time mining town, and later workers' village during construction of the hydro-schemes) for sugar replenishment.
We came down via Burnie, but after some discussion, decided to go home via the scenic route, past Cradle Mountain.
We got to talking about the mountain, and I said I hadn't been there except for a biology excursion twenty years ago, also I'd never seen Dove Lake.
So we took the extra-scenic route, and drove in to the car park for Dove Lake.
And had a chat with a friendly local, who wanted to make quite sure that the camera wasn't edible.
On the way out of the park, the camera battery died :( This was its last photo *sniff*
I still had the phone camera, but it wasn't quite up to the job. This is the only decent photo it gave me.
I did play with using the video camera, but it need some practice and the "best" way to share it is via Youtube.
