We have booked into the Hobart Showgrounds for 10 days and today is our tenth day. We have caught up on the cleaning and washing ready for our next location. The showgrounds has been great but with the development going on, the walk to stop 23 into the city takes a bit longer.
We have had a mixture of dry days, wet days, muddy day, cold days but the best day was looking at the window before we got up and here is snow on the top of Mt Wellington. But at the end of the day they have all been great days. The Hop On Hop Off bus, the kunanyi / Mt Wellington bus, the museums, the markets has given opportunities to see lots of Hobart. We daily walking has been more than what we have done for years. THe body knows but we are coping.
We spent alot of time at the Cascade Female Factory. Highlight was the single actor dramatic performance “The Proud and The Punished”. It was both sad and moving and left you wandering how cruel society was in the past. The reflection is how kind is society in these present days and how do we treat others who are different to us.
After such an emotional day, we had a beautiful walk via the Hobart Rivulet all the way back into Hobart. There are supposed to be platypus in the rivulet but unfortunately thay evaded us.
Material in the museums varied but it was hard to comprehend how badly our first nations people were treated. You hear the word of colonisation from time to time but stories that were told were about plundering, pillaging and murdering existing communities that had lived on their lands for thousands of years.
Hobart has so much history that is both good and bad and also has so much natural beauty with its surrounding bays and mountains.