Hobart for a day...

We are so keen at finding new thrills down here that we all piled into the trusty old Volvo for a day trip down to Hobart to help Benny get some research stuff from the state archives. Well Benny did research, Matt and I ate fish and chips, took photos and walked through shops, yes shops, they have them in Hobart!

Not so early morning piled into the Volvo heading out of the hole...



My backseat comrade for the day Rhiannon. How wet is the back of your neck Matt?



The beacon of the harbour, Aurora Australis. Australia's one and only icebreaker. Such a cool ship I wish I could go down there one day before it all melts.

Note the raised bow which is designed to slide up on top of the ice and use the weight of the ship to break it down. Not sure whether it would wallow like a pig in the massive southern ocean, vomit comit perhaps?



This brand new fishing trawler looked so shmick. I took a few in black and white for fun. Processing already reduced images has resulted in some degredation of images, the full size pics look awesome though.



Mount Wellington all covered in snow. It was bloody cold out of the sun.



More orange stuff....



Some of the awesome restored boats layed up in the harbour...



More B&W fun...



The trip home dodging the fuzz which were out everywhere...



After a brief rainstorm the sunlight was trying to punch its way through the clouds, looked a lot more impressive in real life...



Rhiannon was summoning the rainbows, there were 2, but the camera could only see one at a time :(



And then we were home, quickly off to soccer for a 1-1 draw, Aww I wanted a win...