Hobart Trip: Day 2 Morning
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xenithDay 1: Afternoon
Day 1: Evening
Day 1: Night
A lot of photos this time, but I couldn't bring myself to delete any more. Nothing particularly exciting but just lots of little, well, you'll see :)
Morning! And a foggy morning it is too.
The first item on today's itinerary is to go whale-hunting, in search of the Sky Whale that is being launched from 8-10 am. The program says Parliament House lawns. Accounts of previous launches say Regatta Grounds. These are on either side of the city :)
Reports of events that have happened seem more reliable than a program that isn't updated very often, so we off to the Regatta Grounds.
CBD fire damage put at $10M and Clues add up to conviction
I have a lot of photos of this building :)
While we're walking, I check Facebook for any reports on the morning's launch, and find out it's been cancelled :(
So we head back into the city to find something to do (as the next main item on the itinerary doesn't open until noon). Being as we're near the fountain roundabout, we come back that way
because it has tunnels!
This is where the highways joins the city centre streets, and the passenger railway station was on one corner, so there are pedestrian tunnels running under the roads, that come out in the middle of the roundabout.
On the way back, we pass this place so we go in to see if they have any cool stuff to look at.
It turns out that not only do they have cool stuff to look at, but they also have leaflets telling you were to find it.
Up the stairs.
There are glass panels in the floor that shows remains of earlier buildings on the site.
Brick-walled privy.
That one goes through the wall to the adjoining wall.
There's also a glass case with items that were dug up during the development, a plan showing original buildings and location of the remains on display, and more of those remains underneath.
"Cobblestone pavement" and "sandstone stable footings"
Unfortunately it's only a new development, so it looks like this display window upstairs isn't finished.
Archaeological displays asides, there are interesting spaces in this building. This is an outside area.
See, lots of photos :)
Up a level, and that's a ceiling over the outside area.
Leaving there, we're heading for Salamanca Place to look at one of the Dark Mofo exhibitions. This one is associated with a performance. The performance is over but the art remains.
Walking past the hospital: the ambulance entrance
Blue skies in winter = cold nights and days.
Tall ship, ferry, Antarctic supply ship: that's a good cross-section. Don't know where the Aurora Australis is though.
Don't know what the "Picasso sculpture 'Negroid'" is. The wording sounds like something passed down by word of mouth until someone got around to putting it on a plaque. But after reading that...
...you don't look at the bollards in quite the same way.
Invaders!
So we found the exhibition in the art gallery but it was, well, a bit underwhelming.
Possibly this is recreating a Windows screensaver, or maybe it had some deeper purpose.
A rule of thumb: the gallery space should not be more interesting than the exhibits.
I love this floor, and look at the ceiling. The Salamanca Arts Centre is in the old warehouses that used to line the New Wharf, but now front onto Salamanca Place. Also within the warehouse area are artisans workspaces, lots of little but very interesting shops, restaurants & pubs, and interesting outdoor spaces.
Now these were interesting. Motors attached to the bones, and they react to sound (or motion?).
The wall behind is a bit weird though. (OK I'm standing beside a table of illuminated, animated marrow bones and I find the wall weird :)
Leaving again, and that is a cool staircase, especially from the top.
Then we find this on the next level down.
Art from Trash 2013, the Resource Work Cooperative's annual recycled art exhibition. Never heard of it before. This is a shame.
This is why I have a lot of photos in this entry :)
And it's where the prickly chair was.
Note the ants coming along the branch.
If I'd had a spare $200.... (Artist is Andrew MacFarlane, don't know if he has a webpage or anything.)
After this, we headed off to Salamanca Square in the area behind the warehouses (might be where the quarry used to be, I can't remember) where are a number of eating places including the 24 hour bakery which seemed a good place for breakfast/morning tea/lunch.
And that's a good place to take a break.
Day 1: Evening
Day 1: Night
A lot of photos this time, but I couldn't bring myself to delete any more. Nothing particularly exciting but just lots of little, well, you'll see :)
Morning! And a foggy morning it is too.
The first item on today's itinerary is to go whale-hunting, in search of the Sky Whale that is being launched from 8-10 am. The program says Parliament House lawns. Accounts of previous launches say Regatta Grounds. These are on either side of the city :)
Reports of events that have happened seem more reliable than a program that isn't updated very often, so we off to the Regatta Grounds.
CBD fire damage put at $10M and Clues add up to conviction
I have a lot of photos of this building :)
While we're walking, I check Facebook for any reports on the morning's launch, and find out it's been cancelled :(
So we head back into the city to find something to do (as the next main item on the itinerary doesn't open until noon). Being as we're near the fountain roundabout, we come back that way
because it has tunnels!
This is where the highways joins the city centre streets, and the passenger railway station was on one corner, so there are pedestrian tunnels running under the roads, that come out in the middle of the roundabout.
On the way back, we pass this place so we go in to see if they have any cool stuff to look at.
It turns out that not only do they have cool stuff to look at, but they also have leaflets telling you were to find it.
Up the stairs.
There are glass panels in the floor that shows remains of earlier buildings on the site.
Brick-walled privy.
That one goes through the wall to the adjoining wall.
There's also a glass case with items that were dug up during the development, a plan showing original buildings and location of the remains on display, and more of those remains underneath.
"Cobblestone pavement" and "sandstone stable footings"
Unfortunately it's only a new development, so it looks like this display window upstairs isn't finished.
Archaeological displays asides, there are interesting spaces in this building. This is an outside area.
See, lots of photos :)
Up a level, and that's a ceiling over the outside area.
Leaving there, we're heading for Salamanca Place to look at one of the Dark Mofo exhibitions. This one is associated with a performance. The performance is over but the art remains.
Walking past the hospital: the ambulance entrance
Blue skies in winter = cold nights and days.
Tall ship, ferry, Antarctic supply ship: that's a good cross-section. Don't know where the Aurora Australis is though.
Don't know what the "Picasso sculpture 'Negroid'" is. The wording sounds like something passed down by word of mouth until someone got around to putting it on a plaque. But after reading that...
...you don't look at the bollards in quite the same way.
Invaders!
So we found the exhibition in the art gallery but it was, well, a bit underwhelming.
Possibly this is recreating a Windows screensaver, or maybe it had some deeper purpose.
A rule of thumb: the gallery space should not be more interesting than the exhibits.
I love this floor, and look at the ceiling. The Salamanca Arts Centre is in the old warehouses that used to line the New Wharf, but now front onto Salamanca Place. Also within the warehouse area are artisans workspaces, lots of little but very interesting shops, restaurants & pubs, and interesting outdoor spaces.
Now these were interesting. Motors attached to the bones, and they react to sound (or motion?).
The wall behind is a bit weird though. (OK I'm standing beside a table of illuminated, animated marrow bones and I find the wall weird :)
Leaving again, and that is a cool staircase, especially from the top.
Then we find this on the next level down.
Art from Trash 2013, the Resource Work Cooperative's annual recycled art exhibition. Never heard of it before. This is a shame.
This is why I have a lot of photos in this entry :)
And it's where the prickly chair was.
Note the ants coming along the branch.
If I'd had a spare $200.... (Artist is Andrew MacFarlane, don't know if he has a webpage or anything.)
After this, we headed off to Salamanca Square in the area behind the warehouses (might be where the quarry used to be, I can't remember) where are a number of eating places including the 24 hour bakery which seemed a good place for breakfast/morning tea/lunch.
And that's a good place to take a break.
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