One day at a time

Had the pleasure of seeing the talented Pam Ann at the Hamer Hall in Melbourne yesterday evening . Certainly not the kind of show I would take my elderly aunt to, but the majority of the audience there appeared to appreciate her humour. Although not the group sitting in front of me and my friend, who didn't come back after the interval. At least we got a far better view of the second half of the show.

I took this picture on the way home (15/2/08) and this picture captured the afternoon sun streaming off the gold surface at the top of the Eureka Tower in Melbourne. I'm not sure that people facing that side of the building would appreciated it quite as much! Blogged with Flock

Welcome to the inventors of the Bluetooth GPS Treated myself to a new gadget, this time a GPS receiver with bluetooth so that it can talk to my Nokia. I'm very happy with the device, it fits in my pocket and I can get the nokia to track my trip with its inbuilt software , or use the downloaded Maps and Nav4All navigation software for the phone to give me directions. Although I have found that both of the navigation applications are using maps that are seriously out of date, they don't even have a square that was built in Melbourne in 2001 shown on the maps! Blogged with Flock

9/1 Wednesday Drove out of Hobart to the Huon Valley and the Tahune Airwalk. I enjoyed the airwalk, although Graham was a bit disappointed by it, there wasn't much to see other than trees (it was a forest). Took the guided walk to discover the differences between the types of trees in the forest and it was one of the shortest guided walks I've been on this holiday, although I think the one at Port Arthur has spoilt us. Drove back via the Southern Design Centre in Geeveston and I bought a souvenir of the trip, a pen made out of Huon Pine. Then we drove to the top of Mount Wellington, I was concerned by the level of petrol and how far we had to go. Unfortunately the view from the top was obscured by some low cloud at the top of the mountain. It all looked very strange up there, with completely different plants and no sight of anything other than the top of the mountain. Drove down from the mountain, through the cloud and down into Hobart. Thankfully found a petrol station reason...

8/1 Tuesday After an early checkout, we drove round to Port Arthur once more to wait for it to open. It is remarkable that no one asked to see our tickets and we wandered around the site, in relatively peace and quiet. We had seen all the major buildings before the cruise over to the Isle of Died. There was some attractive scenery around. The walk and talk around the island was very interesting and entertaining. Having finished at Port Arthur, I drove over to Hobart, via the little town of Richmond, which had the oldest bridge in Australia. It probably looks better if there was more water in the river. We had tea and cake before continuing on to Hobart. Had a little difficulty finding the hotel, again the location in Google and therefore my GPS, was inaccurate. After a short walk, we found the hotel and drove over. The room was a long walk from the reception. After a shower, we set out to find somewhere for dinner. We decided on a Greek restaurant in Salamanac Square and sat outside, ...

7/1 Monday Drove down to Port Arthur, after filling up at Swansea at a BP. It was another long two hour drive. We stopped at a few of the tourist attractions on the way down, including a natural paving effect and sea arch. The places were busy and we were pushed to the overflow car park when we got to Port Arthur (where we had to queue for at least an hour to get into the park). Split to trip over two days and took the audio tour for today and wandered around the vast sight. Even though it was busy, it wasn't too bad with plenty of room to move around. Booked into the hotel, when we found it and although it has a spa bath, the bed is disappointing. Will be having dinner in the hotel, there isn't much choice around here.

6/1 Sunday Today was the day we went to Wineglass Bay in the Freycinet National Park. Today was a long drive down from St Helens to Swansea. Took the scenic route via St Marys, which was a very curvy route. Stopped in Bicheno for brunch and a little shopping in preparation for the walk later. Not that impressed with the brunch! Went to see a blowhole and took several pictures of it in action. Drove down to Coles Bay and paid $22 to park there. Took the walk up to the lookout and then down on to the beach itself. The sand wasn't as fine as that at on the Bay of Fires. The walk was tiring, undertaking it over midday and was thankfully for the rest on the beach. We decided to take the longer route back to the car park which was more level than going back over the mountain pass. It was a long trek, but not as difficult as the trip there and there was no one else encountered. Took the road back up the coast and then down to Swansea. We had dinner at a very local restaurant, it was acros...