Hobart Trip: Day 1 Evening
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xenithDay 1: Afternoon
Dark Mofo is a project by Mona (and we do know what Mona is, right?), a winter festival to "celebrate the dark through large-scale public art, food, music, light and noise" that ran from 13-23 June, over the winter solstice.
The Winter Feast was held over three nights towards the end, in Princes Wharf 1, a big shed on the edge of the water (where they have Taste of Tasmania).
We arrived just after 4 pm, when it opened for the first night
and walked into a hug room full of tiny lights. Camera can't capture what it was really like, of course. And why do I think I'm going to be typing that sentence a lot?
Various food vendors down the sides of the tables. Note the consistent style of the menus for each one.
Outside: more food vendors, stages for musicians, places to sit around fires, metal poles that shoot out tongues of fire every fifteen minutes
and barrels of fire placed around the outside.
That's one of the "sit around" fires.
Having checked out the place, we went inside to find some actual food to eat.
I had a small bowl of gulab jamun (have to try making some) and a lamb kebab (of the doner sort) but I couldn't eat all that so I kept it for later.
Outside, it is darker, and colder. Still no musicians yet, or much a crowd. Note the blue line just below the eaves of the buildings.
We didn't hang around, as we still had things to do tonight, starting with checking what times the bus left the city for Sandy Bay and then hurrying up to the Regatta Ground to look at Spectra and back to catch the bus.
See, tongues of fire.
At the entrance, this labyrinth of light had appeared. Most people just walked straight across it though :( It might have worked better if it had an exit on the other side.
And there is out first view of Spectra, the 15 km high light beam. (It's in the first labyrinth photo too, I hadn't noticed it at the time.)
And that's where my camera declared its battery was dead so I shut it down. With camera flat, my enthusiasm for walking all the way up to the regatta ground on the other side of the city and then hurrying back to catch a bus was also flat. Not much point, as I saw it, esp. as phone had also gone flat.
We had to check out the timetable though, so we walked up to the bus stop and while we were, a bus turned up. They do, apparently. And this one claimed to be doing to Sandy and University (where we were headed) and even though it was an hour earlier than we planned, we hopped on. After all, we'd be able to find something to do in Sandy Bay at night for an hour.
Just after leaving the city centre the bus goes past the first Uni stop, which was actually just outside the building we wanted, but having time to kill, we stayed on it with the intention of following it around the loop and getting off at the bottom end of the uni and walking back up.
That might be a better idea during the day when you can see the surroundings. Not a lot to see at night, except this blue beam sticking up from the city. Hard even to tell where we were, except from the occasional street sign or shop, until I saw the casino ahead, and the blue light and the Tasman Bridge. That's where I got off the bus, because I HAD TO take the photo.
And yes, the camera had decided it did have power left in its battery after all. Two bars worth, in fact.
One fascinating thing about the beam is how much it appears to move, even over a short distance.
That's my favourite Spectra from a distance photos.
I think we walked about two or three blocks to get to entrance to the university, which doesn't sound much but it was dark and COLD. As in wrap the scarf around your head cold.
On the walk through the uni grounds, we came across a few interesting things, starting with the football teams training. Not sure which sort of football. The bunch we went past on the ground seemed to have a round white ball and two goal posts. As they were training and not playing, it was a bit hard to tell what they were up to. There were another couple of groups training in the tennis? courts, and overall their was this continuous roar from the calls of the coaches and players.
The photo above is a much larger than life bronze outside the outside the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, of Raold Amundsen. Not really a lot of Amundsen stuff in the city at all, considering. Actually I can't think of anything else off hand. We also spent some time working out a thing with a hole for the sun to shine through onto a diagram of it where it should be in the sky, but being as it was dark it didn't do much.
There's the blue beam again.
The Classics Museum was closed, but we did stare through the window at it.
Fact or Fiction is what we went all the way out there to see. This travelling show by ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) seems to be about promoting the idea to kids and students that science is cool and a good career/study choice. They show clips of films and then the audience has to vote on whether it's fact or fiction.
It was fun, but the choices were actually
* Fact
* More fact then fiction
* More fiction than fact
* Fiction
and they seemed to use the third option (C) too much. So something that is only theoretically possible and relies on other things that are only theoretically possible was counted as a C but so was something that was possible in a restricted sense. So most things ended up being C. Also, too much talking. Still it was interesting to hear scientists talking about developments in science in accessible language and it was fun. If you don't have a short attention span and don't get easily annoyed at inconsistencies and are interested in scientific developments, it's certainly worth going to. Watch out for it.
After leaving here (and getting a bus back into the city about waiting just a few minutes), we went to bed. No wait, we headed up the road to look for the source of that blue beam.
Dark Mofo is a project by Mona (and we do know what Mona is, right?), a winter festival to "celebrate the dark through large-scale public art, food, music, light and noise" that ran from 13-23 June, over the winter solstice.
The Winter Feast was held over three nights towards the end, in Princes Wharf 1, a big shed on the edge of the water (where they have Taste of Tasmania).
We arrived just after 4 pm, when it opened for the first night
and walked into a hug room full of tiny lights. Camera can't capture what it was really like, of course. And why do I think I'm going to be typing that sentence a lot?
Various food vendors down the sides of the tables. Note the consistent style of the menus for each one.
Outside: more food vendors, stages for musicians, places to sit around fires, metal poles that shoot out tongues of fire every fifteen minutes
and barrels of fire placed around the outside.
That's one of the "sit around" fires.
Having checked out the place, we went inside to find some actual food to eat.
I had a small bowl of gulab jamun (have to try making some) and a lamb kebab (of the doner sort) but I couldn't eat all that so I kept it for later.
Outside, it is darker, and colder. Still no musicians yet, or much a crowd. Note the blue line just below the eaves of the buildings.
We didn't hang around, as we still had things to do tonight, starting with checking what times the bus left the city for Sandy Bay and then hurrying up to the Regatta Ground to look at Spectra and back to catch the bus.
See, tongues of fire.
At the entrance, this labyrinth of light had appeared. Most people just walked straight across it though :( It might have worked better if it had an exit on the other side.
And there is out first view of Spectra, the 15 km high light beam. (It's in the first labyrinth photo too, I hadn't noticed it at the time.)
And that's where my camera declared its battery was dead so I shut it down. With camera flat, my enthusiasm for walking all the way up to the regatta ground on the other side of the city and then hurrying back to catch a bus was also flat. Not much point, as I saw it, esp. as phone had also gone flat.
We had to check out the timetable though, so we walked up to the bus stop and while we were, a bus turned up. They do, apparently. And this one claimed to be doing to Sandy and University (where we were headed) and even though it was an hour earlier than we planned, we hopped on. After all, we'd be able to find something to do in Sandy Bay at night for an hour.
Just after leaving the city centre the bus goes past the first Uni stop, which was actually just outside the building we wanted, but having time to kill, we stayed on it with the intention of following it around the loop and getting off at the bottom end of the uni and walking back up.
That might be a better idea during the day when you can see the surroundings. Not a lot to see at night, except this blue beam sticking up from the city. Hard even to tell where we were, except from the occasional street sign or shop, until I saw the casino ahead, and the blue light and the Tasman Bridge. That's where I got off the bus, because I HAD TO take the photo.
And yes, the camera had decided it did have power left in its battery after all. Two bars worth, in fact.
One fascinating thing about the beam is how much it appears to move, even over a short distance.
That's my favourite Spectra from a distance photos.
I think we walked about two or three blocks to get to entrance to the university, which doesn't sound much but it was dark and COLD. As in wrap the scarf around your head cold.
On the walk through the uni grounds, we came across a few interesting things, starting with the football teams training. Not sure which sort of football. The bunch we went past on the ground seemed to have a round white ball and two goal posts. As they were training and not playing, it was a bit hard to tell what they were up to. There were another couple of groups training in the tennis? courts, and overall their was this continuous roar from the calls of the coaches and players.
The photo above is a much larger than life bronze outside the outside the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, of Raold Amundsen. Not really a lot of Amundsen stuff in the city at all, considering. Actually I can't think of anything else off hand. We also spent some time working out a thing with a hole for the sun to shine through onto a diagram of it where it should be in the sky, but being as it was dark it didn't do much.
There's the blue beam again.
The Classics Museum was closed, but we did stare through the window at it.
Fact or Fiction is what we went all the way out there to see. This travelling show by ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) seems to be about promoting the idea to kids and students that science is cool and a good career/study choice. They show clips of films and then the audience has to vote on whether it's fact or fiction.
It was fun, but the choices were actually
* Fact
* More fact then fiction
* More fiction than fact
* Fiction
and they seemed to use the third option (C) too much. So something that is only theoretically possible and relies on other things that are only theoretically possible was counted as a C but so was something that was possible in a restricted sense. So most things ended up being C. Also, too much talking. Still it was interesting to hear scientists talking about developments in science in accessible language and it was fun. If you don't have a short attention span and don't get easily annoyed at inconsistencies and are interested in scientific developments, it's certainly worth going to. Watch out for it.
After leaving here (and getting a bus back into the city about waiting just a few minutes), we went to bed. No wait, we headed up the road to look for the source of that blue beam.
