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Mainstreaming Inclusive Media in Somalia – pilot project was implemented in 2015.
A team of women journalists were trained in participatory media monitoring and evaluation. Participatory research was conducted among the listener groups of Aman Radio in Mogadishu. Based on the findings, the radio station developed its programmes to better match the preferences and needs of diverse audiences.


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Judith Barry / MATRIX 127
May 15–July 1, 1989
Maelstrom: Max Laughs, 1988 (installation view)
Judith Barry's Maelstrom: Max Laughs is the preliminary segment of a larger installation which will use computer and video technology to simulate an entire architectural space. In Maelstrom, Barry establishes the physical and theoretical foundations for this future installation by projecting onto the gallery floor a video which provides, in her words, "an exploration of information technologies and the ways in which private space has been eroded and altered by real changes produced by these technologies in daily life." Both the unusual visual effect of the projected video as well as the issues raised in the tape itself serve to challenge conventional notions of the built environment, suggesting an experience of architecture that encompasses the mass media, computers, and other information and communications systems. Maelstrom presents a number of disorienting spatial effects, such as the placement of a...
Judith Barry's Maelstrom: Max Laughs is the preliminary segment of a larger installation which will use computer and video technology to simulate an entire architectural space. In Maelstrom, Barry establishes the physical and theoretical foundations for this future installation by projecting onto the gallery floor a video which provides, in her words, "an exploration of information technologies and the ways in which private space has been eroded and altered by real changes produced by these technologies in daily life." Both the unusual visual effect of the projected video as well as the issues raised in the tape itself serve to challenge conventional notions of the built environment, suggesting an experience of architecture that encompasses the mass media, computers, and other information and communications systems. Maelstrom presents a number of disorienting spatial effects, such as the placement of a moving image beneath the viewer's feet. This technique suggests an alternative to the more conventional perspective achieved by placing images perpendicular to the floor, on a wall facing the viewer. Here, the screen becomes a kind of trap door, seeming to allow one to peer down into the space below the gallery floor. Sharply angled wall texts, foreshortened in a manner recalling the prologue of the movie Star Wars, veer off in opposite directions to contribute to a skewed sense of order in the Museum's architectural space which is already notably lacking in parallel lines. The video itself, a densely packed two-minute loop, provides an absurdly condensed history of communication and information media. Beginning with an atavistic reference to the Biblical logos, the tape touches on the storage and dissemination of written language, the birth of the novel, the function of computers and their creation of a uniquely technological space ("computers can go places you can't go"), and concludes with a speculation on future cybernetic developments. In the video's culminating segment, the well-known cybernetic television character Max Headroom appears to escape from the physical and electronic restraints of his microchips and circuitry. As Max disappears from the screen, all that remains is the disembodied sound of his robotic, quasi-human laugh. The two wall texts provide insight into the didactic aim of Barry's installation. On one side, the text asks, "IF COMMUNICATION AND UNDERSTANDING ARE JUST AN EFFECT OF INFORMATION TECH...ARE THERE STILL MEN OR ARE THERE JUST COMPUTING, WRITING, AND THINKING MACHINES?" While referring to the potential for self-governing machines such as Max Headroom, this question might also be taken to imply that it has become difficult to discern whether humanity itself remains distinct from the all-encompassing electronic media. Maelstrom may provide one answer to this question in its juxtaposition of the sheer corporeality of the viewer's body with the ethereal lights of the video projection that play across his or her skin and clothing. The other text, written in mirror image, asks, "IN A WORLD WHERE MACHINES ARE AS CRAZY AS THE PEOPLE WHO USE THEM, HOW WILL IT BE POSSIBLE TO DISTINGUISH AN EMANCIPATORY PRACTICE?" Here, Barry alludes to the social dilemma underlying the fact that while computers often make a corporation more efficient and profitable they may accomplish this, in part, by enslaving workers to built-in surveillance systems that monitor and report their work-station behaviors. Thus, Barry suggests that information technologies are only as liberating as the means by which they are used. In Maelstrom: Max Laughs, Barry seeks to develop new audiences and uses for high-tech machinery. Her installation presents computerized effects as wonders in themselves while simultaneously creating an arena for critical awareness of the possible deleterious effects of such technologies. Judith Barry was born in Columbia, Ohio. She attended the University of California at Berkeley, and the San Francisco Art Institute, and holds degrees from the University of Florida (B.S.) and the New York Institute of Technology (M.A.). Among the awards she has received are fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, both in 1986.
MATRIX is supported in part by grants from the Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Foundation, the California Tamarack Foundation, Art Matters, Inc., and the Alameda County Art Commission's County Supervisors' Arts Support Program.

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Collection: Warren Buffett - #359 'How to Invest SMALL Sums of Money'
My name is Simon Denison-Smith from the UK.
My question is this: if you were starting out today with a million dollars, with a vision of building a business with 20 percent average growth in value over 40 years, what type of investments and investment strategy would you look to make in the first five years?
WARREN BUFFETT 00:23
Well, it's somewhat interesting that we formed the first partnership 50 years ago last — 2 days ago, Thursday, May 4, 1956, which was 105,000. (Applause) That's my sister clapping. She was in the partnership. (Laughter)
The — we would — if Charlie and I were starting all over again and we were in this, Charlie would say we shouldn't be doing this. (Laughter)
But if we were to succumb to Satan and engage in the same kind of activity, we would, I think, be doing something very similarly. If we were investing in securities, we would look around the world, and we would look at a Korea.
And Charlie says you can't find 20 of them, but you don't have to find 20 of them; you only have to find one, really. You do not have to have tons of good ideas in this business, you just have a good idea that's worth a ton, occasionally.
And in securities, we would be doing the same thing, which would probably mean smaller stocks — it would mean smaller stocks — because we would find things that could have an impact on a small portfolio that will have no impact on a portfolio the size of Berkshire.
If we were trying to buy businesses, we'd have a tough time. We would have no reputation, so people would not be coming to us. We'd be too small a player, if you're talking about a million dollars. So we would not have much success, I don't think, with small amounts, buying businesses.
Charlie started out, you know, in real estate development because it took very, very little capital, and you could magnify brain power and energy — or, I should say, brain power and energy could magnify small amounts of capital in a huge way that was not true in securities.
You know, my natural inclination was to look at securities and just kind of do it one foot in front of the other over time. But the basic principles wouldn't be different.
You know, I think if I'd been running a partnership a couple of years ago with a small amount of money, I think I'd have probably been 100 percent in Korea.
And, you know, I would be looking around for something that was very mispriced and which — and that I understood. And every now and then, that's going to happen.
Charlie?
Well, I agree with that. The concept that you're likely to find just one thing where it will make 20 percent per annum and you just sit back for the next 40 years, that tends to be dreamland.
And in the real world, you have to find something that you can understand that's the best you have available. And once you've found the best thing, then you measure everything against that because it's your opportunity cost.
That's the way small sums of money should be invested. And the trick, of course, is getting enough expertise that your opportunity cost — meaning your default option, which is still pretty good — is very high.
And so, the game hasn't changed at all in terms of its basic arithmetic. That's why modern portfolio theory is so asinine. (Laughter)
It really is, folks.
Yeah. When Warren said he would have been all in one country, that's pretty close to right. He wouldn't have quite done that when he had the partnership, but he would have been way more concentrated than is conventional if you listen to modern portfolio theory.
Most people aren't going to find thousands of things that are equally good; they're going to find a few things where one or two of them are way better than anything else they know. And the right way to think about investing is to act thinking about your best opportunity cost.
By the way, that's in the freshman course in economics everywhere in the basic textbook; it just hasn't made its way into modern portfolio theory.
We don't get asked to do book reviews. (Laughter)
(Source: https://buffett.cnbc.com/2006-berkshire-hathaway-annual-meeting/)
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"The right way to think about investing is to act thinking about your best opportunity cost." ~Charlie Munger


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According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation there are 525 people without a bed at hospitals across the country today.
56 of these are at University Hospital Limerick which covers North Tipperary, Clare and Limerick.
Another 44 are on trolleys at South Tipp General making them the most overcrowded hospitals in the country today.
Management at the Clonmel hospital are asking members of the public to only attend in the case of a genuine emergency and where possible contact their GP or Caredoc out of hours service first.
However, if members of the public are seriously injured or ill or are worried that their life is at risk the ED will assess and treat them as a priority.
Staff and management at South Tipp General are working to prioritise the discharge of patients as soon as possible where appropriate.
Nenagh General has 3 patients being cared for on trolleys today.


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LEGO Friends - LEGO Friends Theme Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
LEGO Friends Theme Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
This year marks the 10th year anniversary of the LEGO Friends theme and to celebrate, LEGO has released a special anniversary set to mark the event. The Friendship Tree House (41703) features a number of hidden treasures that are in the set that acknowledges references from the past decade for the theme.
LEGO® Friends celebrates its 10-years of building friendships and future creators
Billund, Denmark, 1 January, 2022: The LEGO Group invites fans to celebrate a decade of LEGO® Friends as we take a nostalgic look back at some of the theme's unforgettable milestones. To mark the 10th anniversary, the LEGO Group is releasing an exclusive new celebratory set – the Friendship Treehouse (41703) – alongside seven other new sets on January 1st to add to the popular Friends franchise.
Ever since its launch in 2012, the LEGO Friends universe has taken children on countless adventures set in realistic play worlds where they can explore the aspects and values of friendship while sparking their creative curiosity and confidence.
'LEGO Friends is one of our most beloved franchises and is a culmination of four intense years of anthropological research,' said Rosario Costa, Design Director, the LEGO Group. Thousands of girls and their parents worldwide participated in intensive research that validated the desire for more realistic details, accessories, animal nurturing, friendship, interior building and role play opportunities in a LEGO offering. From the very beginning the focus was to build a solid foundation for a healthy, long-term sustainable business that would help invite more children into LEGO play and I'm incredibly proud to say that we have successfully accomplished this.
Continuous innovation and evolvement of the theme have been key drivers of the success of LEGO Friends, ensuring it has stayed relevant for what is now an entire decade. It originally set out to deliver on a desire for realistic role-play, creativity, and a highly detailed, character-based world with core values of LEGO building. As a result, the theme introduced a new type of character, 'the mini-doll', designed to the same scale as the classic LEGO minifigure but more detailed and realistic then had been seen before. 'Not only is the celebration of LEGO Friends 10-year anniversary a great achievement, it's also extremely exciting to celebrate the anniversary of the mini-doll, recognizing it as a brand icon for the LEGO Group', Creative Lead, Design Director, Fenella Blaize Charity, LEGO Group.
The Friends experience went on to include an animated TV series (Friends of Heartlake City, Friends: The Power of Friendship and Friends: Girls on a mission) as well as books, video games, a LEGO Friends magazine and LEGOLAND theme park attractions, as well as a world of popular merchandise for children to express their love for the theme.
Heartlake City
For ten years the LEGO Friends story has centred on the everyday lives and personalities of five main characters in the fictional hometown of Heartlake City. Each of the friends – Olivia, Mia, Andrea, Stephanie and Emma have distinct qualities and interests, with the building sets designed to immerse children into different parts of town where the friends' adventures take place – downtown, suburbs, beach, nature, camping grounds and mountains, to name a few.
Fenella Blaize Charity explains "to represent Heartlake City as a modern city that resonates with children, we've worked hard to evolve the stories to reflect everyday life as kids see it today. The new 10th Anniversary set is a testimony to how Heartlake City has modernised over the last ten years. And we're taking very deliberate steps to ensure the Friends universe continues to better cater for the growing diverse audience of LEGO Friends. With our 2022 product line-up we have the most diverse character lineup we have ever had – including lots of amazing new supporting characters. The colour palette and tone of voice has also evolved to represent the modern world – with new exciting architecture and details. I really hope our fans are as excited about the innovation as we are".
Friends 10th Anniversary Sets
Marking the 10th Anniversary, the LEGO group is introducing eight new LEGO Friends sets including the main hero set, LEGO Friends Friendship Tree House, which is packed with features to surprise and delight fans. Supported by a great building experience and roleplaying friendship stories, the set helps children explore what they can achieve when working as a team built on friendship.
Adding a bit of fun and taking fans down memory lane, the anniversary Friendship Tree House has retro Heartlake City treasures hidden within it. A digital guide makes the construction extra fun. Available in the LEGO Building Instructions app, it lets children visualize their nature set as they build, allowing children to transport to Heartlake City where they'll find that the best times are spent with friends.
The following eight sets are released globally on January 1st 2022:
Pet Clinic (41695) – $19.99
Turtle Protection Vehicle (41697) – $9.99
Beach Glamping (41700) – $39.99
Street Food Market (41701) – $49.99
Canal Houseboat (41702) – $79.99
Friendship Tree House (41703) – $79.99
Main Street Building (41704) – $149.99
Tree-Planting Vehicle (41707) – $29.99
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Take the next step in your journey towards preventing workplace risks.
R-Link: A Step Forward for Risk Management Technology
It's time to take the next step on your journey towards preventing health issues in your workplace.
For twenty years, we've guided our customers as they've navigated complex legal landscapes, changing regulations, global crises, and the day-to-day challenges and opportunities that arise in the industries we serve. Through working with clients and partners across construction, rail, manufacturing, and countless other sectors for over two decades, we've had the unique opportunity to gain unprecedented and exclusive insight into how organisations, duty holders, and workers perceive and prevent workplace health issues, and how that's changed over time.
Over the years, we've collected those insights and poured them into our research and development. We've been able to stay ahead of the field when it comes to building partnerships and launching products and features that we know our customers will use, and love.
That's why, when we created our latest product - the successor to our trusted HAVWEAR - we felt a responsibility to create something truly special, and innovative.
Introducing: R-Link.
R-Link is the next step on your journey from being a mitigator of workplace risk, towards becoming a prevention engineer. The R-Link watch has been designed specifically to stand up to the rigours of construction sites and heavy industry while offering an easy and familiar user experience. By creating an interface that people are instantly comfortable with from their use of smartphones or smartwatches, we've created a resilient device that looks and feels like something you've already been using for years.
When it comes to functionality, R-Link is truly in a class by itself. This is a device built for purpose, with purpose. Initially launched with HAVS exposure and an ability to warn of proximity to danger, R-Link will ultimately contemplate your universe of risk, and include geofencing, lone worker, employee messaging, evacuation, and mustering, and more. As with HAVWEAR, R-Link will provide real-time alerts to notify workers of unsafe exposure levels to any number of known workplace threats.
R-Link will be supported by the powerful Reactec Analytics that our customers have known and relied upon for years, ensuring that organisations, duty holders, and workers can all access vital information and insight, as quickly as possible. Reactec's world-class Analytics will enable
R-Link users to shorten the distance between insight and action - meaning the decisions that our customers make on the ground or in the office will be based on the most reliable, most accurate information available.
R-Link Features and Benefits:
HAVS: Based on Reactec's proven and validated Hand-Arm Vibration monitoring methodology, which has seen over 100,000 employees across the UK protected, R-Link easily and reliably measures workers' exposure to HAV and ensures simple, effective monitoring by providing workers with real-time data about their exposure to vibration from tool use.
Dangerous Proximity: Keep your workers safe from proximity to dangerous locations or vehicles with R-Link. By alerting workers to unsafe proximity in real-time, R-Link not only offers immediately actionable insight, but also provides an overview of near-misses, enabling you to refine your controls more effectively.
Reactec Analytics: R-Link is powered by Reactec's industry-leading Analytics, which provide data-driven insight to organisations, empowering them to understand their risk environment easily and reliably. Reports are generated automatically and circulated to duty holders for effortless, effective risk management.
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Evacuation and Mustering: R-Link makes it easy for you to account for your employees during an evacuation and mustering situation.
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The young and interconnected market of Africa: Challenges, threats, and opportunities
Nathan Sawicki Written by Nathan Sawicki
on 30 Nov 2016
If you're wondering why Africa has been a constant topic of conversation in the communications industry over the past few years, there are many reasons for that. Here are some; despite political unrest and weak economic growth in the past, the ownership of smartphones is evolving at a breakneck speed and consumers are rapidly increasing their use of mobile applications.
On the other side of the fence, telecom operators in Africa are responding to consumption behaviors with the rapid deployment of 3G networks and expansion of LTE technology.
Young population, new technology
Africa has a predominantly young and innovative population, with six in ten people under 25 years of age and more than two-thirds owning a mobile phone. What's more, young Africans are growing up in a continent that has become an integral part of the global economy. Most of them expect to be linked by modern communication networks to the world's markets, media, and opportunities.
While other continents are still working out what to do with legacy cables, phone lines, and now-obsolete technology from previous generations, Africa has avoided fixed lines for the most part. They have gone straight into satellite and wireless technology, making access universal across the continent.
Significant infrastructure investment in some countries, such as mobile broadband and fiber-optic cable connections to households, together with the widespread availability of low-cost smartphones and tablets, has enabled millions of Africans to be connected.
This ease of access, lower technological and infrastructure costs due to economies of scale, has led to innovation and entrepreneurial activity as people apply the broad-ranging capabilities of the digital age to solve daily struggles.
In industries such as agriculture and fishing, Africa's applied technology innovations are enabling farmers to communicate with each other and the markets. People can access information on everything from weather, crop selection, and pest control to management and finance. What is more, authorities are using technological developments to prevent illegal fishing.
Dialog trade net enables farmers and produce vendors to check the spot prices of agricultural goods via mobile phone, increasing efficiency and productivity, and reducing the likelihood of exploitation.
In banking, M-PESA is a mobile-based money transfer service which has become widely popular with Africans who may not have bank accounts but want to trade and transact in the formal economy. A similar service, Mobile Money, had 16.6 million total registered subscribers by 2014.
A mobile marketplace
The use of mobile devices and smartphones is rapidly increasing across the continent and expected to continue expanding. In fact, it is estimated that global mobile data will increase tenfold from 2014 to 2019 and that mobile internet usage could make up 10 percent of Africa's economy by 2025.
The main reason behind the proliferation is that for less than $100, people who couldn't afford computers or tablets can now be online and access data through a smartphone. The rapid deployment of 3G and 4G networks and the fledgling expansion of LTE services are additional key drivers.
With the meteoric pick-up of smartphone technology, Africans are becoming increasingly more sophisticated in their use of mobile applications. Locally relevant content, video-on-demand, and m-learning are high on their wish lists and are expected to drive competition and innovation in this booming marketplace for years to come.
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Obesity can cause health problems and therefore makes sufferers more prone to premium increases and declinatures on insurance policies such as life insurance, income protection and critical illness cover.


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Photos just don't do trees justice.... I love seeing it all lit up. Makes me smile and feel warm, cozy, Christmas thoughts.
The Christmas spirit is high in our house this year. Gracie went from asleep, to singing "Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells!" this morning. A bit of a shocking wake up, but kind of nice.
I sang Jingle Bells two nights ago when we were decorating and then again before she went to bed last night, so maybe it's indoctrination, but either way, I'm happy to hear it.


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Tag Archives: Otago Bay
Increasingly blog followers have questioned my enigmatic no-name status. I have been secretive about my identity to protect myself from predators and weirdos. My surname is so rare that I wouldn't want someone to track me to my house. When the walk was over I intended to reveal and explain more about myself so everyone could understand why I presented myself only as Tasmanian Traveller.
Despite this approach, for people who have emailed me, I have opened up a little more. For the woman from upstate New York who visited me and asked to walk on some of the sections she had read about in my blog, of course she got to learn so much more about me. And she, and others, have been most respectful and careful to keep my gender and characteristics neutral and non-identifying. Thank you.
Now that the process for my walk from the mouth to the source of the Derwent River is evolving, I no longer see a need to retain my protective shell. From now on, there will be safety in numbers as I walk with one or more friends.
So who am I? My name is Helen Tyzack and I come from a working history in the visual arts and museology industries, plus an overlay of working in or for many different types of education institutions, government agencies and not-for-profit organisations. All my life I have walked to get around, keep costs down, to be kinder to the climate, and to experience the beauties of the natural environment at close quarters. A few years ago I sold my car and have walked or used public transport ever since. As a female, I have wanted to walk alone in remote and isolated country and by maintaining my anonymity this has been comfortably possible. I am on the mature side of 60 years of age, short in stature with an overweight body, various health challenges and perpetual problems with my feet. But I refuse to let these characteristics and impediments prevent me living; they slow me but they do not stop me. I will not let them stop me. I am energised by the possibilities of discovering new places, and my walk along the Derwent River has exceeded all my expectations. In recent years I have flown off to different countries around the world to learn and experience new adventures. It has been one of the greatest surprises that the Derwent has offered so many revelations that the thought of overseas travel has been halted. I guess it is always easier to think somewhere else will be more interesting yet a place right on your own doorstep can offer 'the world'.
The photo of me above was taken by a passer-by as I walked past Otago Bay at the end of last year on Stage 7 of my walk along the Derwent River.
For each of the 15 walking stages completed so far, I have walked alone and independently, and have only been supported by public transport when buses deposited me at a starting point and collected me from each walk's destination. I have realised this practice cannot continue because of the limited public transport options available in central Tasmania. As an alternative, I have decided to try a UBER-style approach to transport – friends are offering to be my chauffeur and in some cases they are offering to walk with me.
To cope with the constraints of private property restrictions, I am working with locals and others to obtain various kinds of alternative access to the Derwent River. No project ever goes totally to plan and that is the joy of exploration: discovering new ways to meet changing personal expectations keeps my brain active and my mind vitally alive.
During my last walk, I reached the township of Gretna. From now on, as I head inland towards Lake St Clair, I expect to be accompanied by a friend who will drive me to key locations. Whenever we 'touch' the river I will walk north and south along the edge to the extent that the river and the landscape allow. Gradually, I will walk past the river until I sink down with pleasure on the dam wall at the southern end of St Clair Lagoon with my goal achieved. The next stages of my walk will represent the collection of the final pieces of a fabulous patchwork quilt – and once I have all the pieces, I will stitch them together into my blog to record a sequential and seamless walk from Gretna to Lake St Clair. And then I will write two books: one will be a how-to-do-it publication for tourists and locals who want to understand how to use public transport to discover the river edges, and the second book will be a fictionalised account of my walk.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Tasmania, Walking and tagged Derwent River, Gretna, Helen Tyzack, Lake St Clair, New York, Otago Bay, St Clair Lagoon, Stage 7, Tasmania, Tasmanian Traveller, Tyzack, UBER on October 23, 2015 by Tasmanian traveller.
Another revision: naturally therapeutic images from stages 7-10
I can't help myself. Having reviewed my favourite images from the first half a dozen stages of my walk along the Derwent River, I felt compelled to continue looking through my collection from the subsequent walks. I have chosen photos showing aspects of both the natural and man-made world and I believe all will prompt thinking about the Derwent River, Hobart and its suburbs, and the natural environment. My selection of the images with the most memorable impact for me, from stages 7-10, are given below.
From the eastern shore looking northwards towards the Bowen Bridge, with a couple of black swans on the river.
Two plaques 'opened' by two great Australian prime ministers near the Bowen Bridge.
The rusting raw-edged remains of a ship, the Otago, at Otago Bay.
My enjoyment of any family's black sheep.
Heading into Old Beach and gradually leaving Mount Wellington behind.
The gloominess of the approaching storm when I reached Old Beach.
The pleasures of well-made pathways, thanks to local government.
Looking northward across the Jordon River to Greens Point.
The glories of native flora. In these instances, it was blooming wattle and a spectacular stand of eucalyptus/gum trees which attracted my attention.
The remains and the signs of a burnt out car on a back track.
Knowing that it is still possible to have a laugh when walking.
Arriving at the Bridgewater Bridge.
Walking on the western shore of the Derwent River for the first time during this project.
The house of one of first European settlers, James Austin, at Austins Ferry.
At Dogshear Point, walking around the Claremont golf course, with the thwacking sound of hit balls crossing the greens.
Reaching Cadbury's chocolate manufacturing factory in Claremont.
The hand-hewn rustic style seat near Connewarre Bay.
Passing MONA somewhat camouflaged as it nestles into a tiny hill against the Derwent River.
The mosaics along the foreshore.
The jumble of boats and boat houses at Prince of Wales Bay.
Road mark making in Lutana.
Cornelian Bay's oil tanks up close.
The Tasman Bridge.
The circus had come to town.
The emptiness of an arena of stands waiting to be filled during wood chopping competitions.
Reaching the 'end of the line' on arrival in Hobart city.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Mount Wellington, Tasmania, Walking and tagged Austins Ferry, Australian, black sheep, Black Swans, Bowen Bridge, Bridgewater Bridge, Cadbury, chocolate, chocolate manufacturing factory, circus, Claremont, Claremont Golf Course, Connewarre Bay, Cornelian Bay, Derwent River, Dogshear Point, end of the line, eucalyptus, Greens Point, Gum trees, Hobart, James Austin, Jordon River, local government, Lutana, MONA, mosaic, Mount Wellington, native flora, Old Beach, Otago Bay, prime ministers, Prince of Wales Bay, rustic, Tasman Bridge, wattle, wood chopping on May 12, 2015 by Tasmanian traveller.
From Windermere to McCarthy's Point via Coonewarre Bay on my 9th walk along the Derwent River
The track from Windermere southwards was not signposted but with hunches I found a well walked and easy informal track, the start of which was rather obscure.
More black swans swimming.
I loved the tall stand of pine trees which featured on one part of the track to Connewarre Bay.
This was my first view of Connewarre Bay with the backdrop of prominent Mount Wellington.
Once near the houses with their lawns extending to the water's edge, I came across a wonderful piece of rustic furniture to be enjoyed by walkers such as myself. The wood's soft grey weathered tones were immensely attractive.
Further along, I came across a large family of what I think were Eurasian Coots – black feathered with white bills. My books suggest these birds are found on fresh water lakes and swamps. The Derwent River, at this distance from the sea, apparently still has a saltiness from the daily tidal flows. Perhaps my identification is incorrect. Anyway this family weren't sure whether to scurry from the shore onto the water and 'escape' from me or not.
I continued walking around the Bay towards McCarthy's Point.
It took half an hour reaching McCarthy's Point from Windermere. I loved the view across the Derwent River towards the suburb of Otago Bay with Mount Direction behind.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Mount Wellington, Tasmania, Walking and tagged Connewarre Bay, Derwent River, Eurasian Coots, McCarthy's Point, Mount Direction, Mount Wellington, Otago Bay, Windermere on December 1, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
Colonial Artists, the Derwent River and the Glenorchy area
A number of 19th century artists made visual references to Roseneath on the Derwent River within the current City of Glenorchy. These include Joseph Lycett, George William Evans and James Taylor (no not 'Sweet Baby James') all of whom may have a connection with each other as I will explain.
Background to Joseph Lycett
Let's start with Joseph Lycett who left a significant body of work depicting Sydney and Newcastle in NSW, and a few pieces named with features along the Derwent River.
Lycett didn't come to Australia by plan. He was a forger and the British government transported him to Sydney with a sentence of 14 years. He arrived in 1814. It was clear he had skills and was almost immediately given a ticket of leave on landing, but he couldn't help himself. Within 15 months Lycett was illegally printing bank notes for use in NSW. His new sentence was relocation to Newcastle for hard labour in the coal mines. I suspect there must have been something charismatic about this man despite the Australian Dictionary of Biography alleging Lycett had 'habits of intoxication' that were 'fixed and incurable'. Before long his abilities were noted and he was out of the mines and drafting designs for new buildings in Newcastle. In 1821 he was finally pardoned and left Australia for good the following year. But Lycett never visited Van Diemen's Land.
I wondered how he came to produce the well-known pictorial publication Views of Australia or New South Wales & Van Diemen's Land, published by John Souter, London, 1824-25 described by eminent Australian Art historian John McPhee as "the most lavish pictorial account of the colony ever produced". McPhee has come to the conclusion that Lycett couldn't help being a con man. Though his views of Van Diemen's Land were supposedly scenes he had witnessed, McPhee (quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald 5/4/2006) says "there's no doubt he never went there". We can be surprised to learn that when Views In Australia didn't sell in England as well as Lycett hoped, he turned to forging bank notes again. He must have loved his printing press!
So I began to research how Lycett 'knew' what the Derwent River and the surrounding land looked like.
When Lycett first landed in Sydney, Governor Macquarie was ruling the colony. During Lycett's sojourn in Newcastle, Macquarie became acquainted with the artist's pictorial records of the colony. In 1818, the Governor received the personal gift of a chest. Lycett had painted eight of the twelve panels on this chest with views of Newcastle as well as copies of William Westall's Views of Australian Scenery. In 1820, the year Lycett returned to live in Sydney and earn a living as a painter, according to http://www.nla.gov.au/selected-library-collections/lycett-collection 'Governor Macquarie and Elizabeth Macquarie were among his patrons'. Obviously impressed, Governor Macquarie sent a selection of the artist's work to Lord Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in England.
But what does this have to do with the Derwent River?
What is the story about Joseph Lycett's Tasmanian (then named Van Diemen's Land) pictures? Well … Governor Macquarie visited Van Diemen's Land on two occasions: in 1811 (before Lycett arrived) and in 1821 (a few months before Lycett left for England). I love connections and so I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Governor Macquarie named the Austins Ferry area as Roseneath when he visited Van Diemen's Land in 1821. Did the Governor make drawings and bring back sketches? This is doubtful. It is more likely that others went to Van Diemen's Land at the Governor's request, brought their sketches back to Sydney and that these were shown (perhaps some were given) to Lycett.
I wondered whose sketches, paintings or etchings Lycett saw, and then 'used'.Two people with drawing skills have been suggested: George Evans and James Taylor.
First, let's consider George Evans.
In the first two decades of the 1800s, Governor Macquarie sent surveyor George William Evans to Van Diemen's Land off and on a number of times for short trips to remeasure land previously granted (misconduct involved); various sources suggest different years so I am not sure exactly which years in the second decade of the 1800s Evans was in Tasmania; some suggestions are Sept 1812 to Aug 1813, 1814, July 1815 to 1817. Wikipedia suggests that on two occasions Evans was granted valuable acres of land near in the Coal River Valley near the town of Richmond outside the Greater Hobart Area.
According to http://www.daao.org.au/bio/george-william-evans/biography, at the end of 1818 Evans was able to resume office as Deputy Surveyor-General of Van Diemen's Land. His travels around Tasmania are recorded in his Geographical, Historical and Topographical Description of Van Diemen's Land… (London, 1822). One of his watercolour sketches of Hobart Town was used for the foldout aquatint and etching used as the frontispiece in the original edition. Another of the town was published by Ackermann of London as an independent print. Both depict Hobart as a thriving British colonial seaport town with court-house, commissariat store, St David's Church, warehouses and numerous domestic dwellings in evidence. A surviving original (Dixson Library) shows a competent understanding of watercolour technique.
The website http://www.nla.gov.au/selected-library-collections/lycett-collection offered: 'As well as being a competent surveyor and a resolute explorer, Evans was an artist of some note. His aquatint view of Hobart in 1820 was published as a frontispiece in his Geographical, Historical and Topographical Description of Van Diemen's Land … (London, 1822; second edition, 1824; and a French edition, Paris, 1823). The original, with another aquatint of Hobart in 1829, is in the Dixson Library of New South Wales.'
Second let's consider James Taylor.
Military officer, Major James Taylor, arrived in Sydney in 1817 with the 48th Foot Regiment. Taylor produced a number of paintings and prints throughout his tours and his panoramic works of Sydney were particularly popular. He travelled to Van Diemen's Land with Governor Macquarie in 1821. On 15th February 1822 he sailed to Britain with the Macquaries on board the Surry. Only 50 people including the crew were on board for this 5 month trip around Cape Horn and it is easy to speculate that Macquarie and Taylor would have talked about Lycett.
Comparison of art works
I decided that comparing the works of the three artists Evans, Taylor and Lycett might help me to understand where Lycett's Tasmanian images came from. Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate sufficient of the work of Evans and Taylor to make a solid comparison despite knowing Lycett's work very well (having worked in the Newcastle Art Gallery for a number of years in the presence of a substantial collection of Newcastle district related images by Lycett). Nevertheless some images for Evans and Taylor are available.
Examples of Lycett's art
Below is an image of Lycett's etching (see below) titled Roseneath Ferry near Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land dated 1 December 1824 (two years after Lycett left Australia). The etching was published as plate number 4 in Views in Australia or New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Delineated. London: J. Souter, 1824. This etching is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Lycett is looking across the Derwent River from somewhere above the western shore and southwards so that the 'hill' in the distance to the left of the picture is Mount Direction (you may recall I walked past this as I passed the Bowen Bridge on my way from the suburb of Risdon to the suburb of Otago Bay on the eastern shore).
The image below, also by Joseph Lycett, is another hand coloured etching, this time from the viewpoint of the eastern shore. The title is View of Roseneath Ferry, taken from the Eastside, Van Diemen's Land and it was produced in 1825 (when he was already living in England). One of the edition of this etching is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
The image below is Distant View of Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, from Blufhead Plate 28 from Views of Australia or New South Wales& Van Diemen's Land, published by John Souter, London, 1824-25. This handcoloured aquatint and etching is held in the Joseph Brown Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Examples of George Evans's art
The image below comes from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-22/1819-slnsw-south-west-view-of-hobart-town-1819-george-william-e/5689410 It is titled South West view of Hobart Town and dated 1819
The image below comes from http://www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/s/search.html?collection=slnsw&meta_e=350
Hobart Town, Vandiemen's Land. 1828 At lower left is printed "G. W. Evans. Pinxt."; at lower right "R.G. Reeves. Sculpt"; underneath title "Published 1828, by R. Ackermann, 96 Strand, London" he image is from the collections of the State Library of NSW.
Examples of James Raylor's art
I could find no image by James Taylor that was related to Van Diemen's Land. I only found two New South Wales images.The image below is from http://www.afloat.com.au/afloat-magazine/2010/july-2010/Lachlan_Macquarie#.VHAuwPmUdqU and titled Panoramic view of Port Jackson c.1821
The image below, from http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=326892 is an aquatint of Port Jackson and Sydney dated 1824.
This panorama of Port Jackson and of the town of Sydney was taken from a hill near the Parramatta River, was produced with ink on paper by Major James Taylor, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1820, then engraved by Rittner et Goulpil, Sydney / Paris in 1824. The Powerhouse Museum (Sydney) provided the following information:
'Statement of significance
In 1820 Major James Taylor created a series of watercolours on paper which, when joined together, formed a panorama of Sydney. When he returned to England in 1822 (did Taylor and Lycett travel on the same ship? – more research required) Taylor arranged for the engraving and printing of a three sheet panorama based on his watercolours. Known as 'Major Taylor's Panorama', this is one of the most informative depictions of Sydney in its early years. Taylor, a topographical draughtsman attached to the 48th Regiment, arrived in 1817 when Sydney was thriving and Governor Macquarie was trying to turn an 'infantile' penal colony into a 'civilised' society. Taylor's pictures were intended to be a record of that change. The view, taken from Observatory Hill, encompasses Sydney Harbour from the Heads to Lavender Bay, showing many of the major buildings of the day.
Convicts can be seen cutting the sandstone which provided building material for Sydney's expansion. The many fences indicate gardens and a respect for private property. The harbour is filled with trade and military ships. Government House and its stables can be seen set in Governor Macquarie's private park called the Demesne. Much of this park still survives as the Botanic Gardens and the Domain. This area contrasts markedly with the small cottages in the middle ground which were typical of many in The Rocks. They were often occupied by convicts and their families who were encouraged to develop 'respectable' habits like gardening in their spare time.
A prominent building is the Military Hospital, built in 1815, where patients can be seen dressed in long coats. On the horizon are the impressive buildings of Macquarie St, including St James Church, the Hyde Park Barracks and the General Hospital. To the right of the Military Windmill is Cockle Bay, later called Darling Harbour. The land beyond is the Ultimo estate owned by the surgeon John Harris. To the far right are the windmills that gave rise to the name Millers Point.
Topographical artists often included indigenous people in their work. These images were intended to educate European viewers about the appearance and customs of the 'natives', but such depictions were informed by symbolism and ideology rather than a representation of reality. In Taylor's panorama Aborigines stand amid uncultivated bush, in contrast to Europeans who are clearing and grazing the land. When the British took possession of New South Wales they argued that, as the Aborigines did not 'work' the land, they did not own it. This supported the notion of 'terra nullius' or nobody's land. Taylor's representation is a graphic rendering of that argument.
The engraving is based on watercolours by Major James Taylor. Taylor was a topographical draughtsman attached to the 48th Regiment. He arrived in Sydney on the convict transport Matilda on 9 August 1817. He accompanied the Macquarie's on their tour of Tasmania in May and June 1821 and some of the Tasmanian views in Joseph Lycett's Views are probably based on Taylor's drawings. Taylor received some training in draughtsmanship as part of his military studies and like other military and naval officers, was interested in his surroundings and recorded them in watercolours. Little of Taylor's work survives, notably the originals of this view of Sydney Harbour. This image is held in the Powerhouse Museum collection.'
My conclusion
Lycett's style is quite different from each of Evans and Taylor so it is difficult to attribute the work of one or the other as being the 'aid' to Lycett's Tasmanian etchings.
There are three possibilities.
Lycett took the shape of the landscape around Roseneath from Taylor's drawings. I am guessing that since Taylor accompanied Governor Macquarie to Van Diemen's Land in 1821, he probably went to Roseneath with the Governor on the day that Macquarie named Roseneath. It is conceivable Taylor rushed up a few sketches and it is these that either Taylor showed or gave Lycett, or Taylor gave to the Governor who showed or gave them to Lycett. Perhaps the three of them met in London on arrival in 1822?
Lycett had access in Sydney to Evans maps of the land, and using their flat two dimensional nature, he fabricated a three dimensional landscape. If indeed he worked in this way, then the odd shapes of some topographical features of the landscape in Lycett's pictures from and towards Roseneath can be explained.
Lycett had access to both Taylor and Evans work and amalgamated them to create a fictional but partly realistic depiction of Tasmanian sites. Lycett's history is one of creativity, so sticking to the facts of the situation wouldn't necessarily be important.
Incidental extra
In conclusion, there is one connection between the current Hobart and the Derwent River and the early 19th century Joseph Lycett – which could never have been foreseen. I discovered that Lycett was on the list of prisoners that sailed to Newcastle on 8 July 1815: the name of the ship was the Lady Nelson. Pride of place on the today's wharf at Hobart is a training sailing replica, the original having been stripped, burnt and sunk in 1825.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Walking and tagged Austins Ferry, Bowen Bridge, City of Glenorchy, Coal River Valley, Elizabeth Macquarie, George William Evans, Governor Macquarie, John McPhee, Joseph Lycett, Lord Bathurst, Major James Taylor, Mount Direction, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, New South Wales, Newcastle, Newcastle Art Gallery, Otago Bay, Richmond, Roseneath, Sydney, Tasmania, Van Diemen's Land, William Westall on November 23, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
Rocks 240 million years old – 7th stage of my walk along the Derwent River
Having left Otago Bay and now walking along the Derwent River edge of the East Derwent Highway, the green hills soon disappeared. I calculated that to have entered the Highway from Otago Bay Road and stayed on it would have cut half an hour off the walk, at least. Once a little way north, I looked back to the river edge near the end of Murtons Road and reflected on the insanity of the path I chose. I like the photo below because I can see where I have just been at the water's edge in the distance. In addition, I am seeing one side of Mount Wellington with the awareness that once I travel inland further, this will disappear from sight.
As I continued the walk, over the Highway was a wall of rock which continued for a while.
When I spotted an interpretative sign installed on the rocks, I crossed the road to investigate. The rocks and ground were teeming with Portuguese Millipedes crawling over the surface looking for a mate. Rain encourages them to get on the move and, trust me, they were moving. Thankfully they are completely harmless to humans.
I arrived at the sign at 12.15pm and was glad to be able to read some geological information that was related to the fauna which was living 240 million years ago. This was the time when the Paleozoic era was in transition to the Mesozoic era. Dinosaurs were dominant in the later period, while in the earlier time, fish, insects, spiders and shells developed. It seems that increasingly large water creatures were around at the time when these sandstone rocks were formed.
Once walking along the river again, I stopped to admire the views in all directions. Looking back, Mount Direction rose up (I knew it sat just behind the Bowen Bridge where I had walked earlier in the day). The rural nature of the area below the small mountain is evident closer to the water's edge.
By 12.25pm, I had passed a sign indicating I had reached the locale of Old Beach, and I'd stopped and looked at the headland containing the Cadbury's chocolate factory on the western side of the Derwent River.
Walking beside the guard rail on the water side for safety, rather than the road side, was not an easy experience. Also, it was not safe in parts especially where the slippery gravel dropped down to the water side. Nevertheless I persisted where I could and, after brushing beneath a wattle tree, came out the other side perfumed. A clean sweet smell. Very refreshing. On the rocks, a lone Pied Oyster Catcher wobbled away nervously. I could see his future meals through the clear water.
Around some more corners, and I arrived at Cassidy's Bay.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Mount Wellington, Walking and tagged Bowen Bridge, Cadbury's, Cassidy's Bay, chocolate, Derwent River, Geology, Mount Direction, Murtons Road, Otago Bay, Portuguese millipedes on November 6, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
Into and through the suburb of Otago Bay – part of the 7th stage of my walk along the Derwent River
Before long I could see the water of Otago Bay, and I could see the rusty remnants of the two boats, the Otago and the Westralian. In the photo below, the low mountain on the other side of the Derwent is Mount Faulkner.
Ja and her dog were lively company and walking with her was a big change from my normal solo experiences. We enjoyed photographing each other in this quiet and peaceful place and parted once we reached the interpretative panel near the sunken ribs of the two boats (Westralian on the left and Otago on the right in the photo below).
I was disappointed that the main point of the interpretative panel was not to talk broadly about the history of both boats but to laud the last Captain of the Otago, the esteemed novelist Joseph Conrad. Over the road, Conrad Drive wound up the hill into a residential area. It seems the author has become most important. The Westralian is not mentioned at all so I can only imagine other visitors must leave the site quite puzzled about what they are seeing. In an earlier posting I provided detailed information about the Otago, after which the Bay and suburb have been named. The Westralian was a steam ship abandoned and cut down during the 1930s.
It was 10.40am before I left the boats of Otago Bay. I walked uphill – yet again without a formal pathway so I was alert for cars travelling through. There are always 'lead foot Larrys' whose press on the car's accelerator speeds them through the suburban streets as they veer unexpectedly onto whichever side of the road gives them the shortest path to whatever their destination. Could be a shortcut to God if they are not careful.
This leafy gum-treed suburb is mostly high above the Derwent River and many of the houses sit with grand views. At one point I could see that I was level with the height of the Bowen Bridge in the distance. It was not possible to walk around the water's edge and it was impossible to walk around the edge of the cliffs because access to these has been cut off by the gates and fences of private property.
I stayed walking up and down and then up and then downhill on undulating Otago Bay Road.
Some houses were located on 5 acre lots. Some parts of the suburb seemed quite rural without any sign of active agricultural businesses. I passed a creek with croaking frogs and others making a soft booming bom bom, bom bom; a repetitive but very musical sound. Wild blackberry canes flourished. Sulphur crested cockatoos screamed through the trees. The sounds of so many other birds reverberated through the bush. Beautiful. Wonderful.
At 11.10am, I noted a left hand road led to accommodation; the Penenjou Bed and Breakfast. I didn't walk this road but I imagine that tourists staying out here might find the country to be very attractive and peaceful. Apparently the homestead is located on a hectare of developed gardens overlooking Mount Wellington.
I continued walking along Otago Bay Road, close to and parallel to the Highway.
At the intersection with Restdown Drive reached at 11.18am, a sign pointed to another accommodation option Otago Cottage (http://www.otagocottage.com.au/). Again, knowing this was a No Through Road, I stayed walking along Otago Bay Road.
Looking inland I could see the smallish mound of Mount Direction. From experience I know that walking tracks on this mountain can be accessed from the Risdon Dam Reserve near to the Prison and Willow Tavern, way back near Risdon Cove.
I reconnected with the East Derwent Highway at 11.22am, edged the road dodging rain spits, and continued walking northwards.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Mount Wellington, Walking and tagged East Derwent Highway, Joseph Conrad, Mount Direction, Mount Faulkner, Otago, Otago Bay, Otago Bay Road, Otago Cottage, Penenjou Bed and Breakfast, Risdon Dam, Westralian on November 4, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
From Risdon Cove walking towards Otago Bay along the Derwent River- part of the 7th stage of my walk
For safety's sake I continued walking along on the Derwent River side rather than on the road side of the guard rail, although there were moments when the edge fell away and so I was forced temporarily back onto the road. This stage certainly would not be one that someone using crutches or a wheel chair could follow. There were no official paths and so I made do with whatever I could in terms of a suitable walking path.
I enjoyed this part of the walk observing more black swans in pairs and families of ducklings out for a paddle. At the end of the bay of Risdon Cove, I exchanged friendly greetings with a couple of woman who were selling bunches of colourful flowers from the boot of their car on a set back on the other side of the road.
I continued up an incline still on the 'safe' side of the railing amidst blown and thrown rubbish, tall weeds, and native grasses. Whispering casuarina trees separated me from the River. Clearly people have walked here before but it is a rough 'non-path'.
At 9.54am I reached the turn off signposted to Bridgewater, began the left hand walk downhill, and passed the furry remains of dead possums (unfortunately ex- road-kill). To my right, on the other side of the road, the 19th century heritage listed Cleburne Homestead and its scatter of old sandstone buildings popped occasionally into view through large trees and bushes. The Homestead operates as a luxury bed and breakfast art hotel style establishment (http://www.visitcleburne.com.au/).
The photo below shows the Cleburne Spit which inserts itself into the Derwent River, with the Bowen Bridge crossing the River in the distance.
At 10am I arrived at the junction road leading left to the Cleburne Spit. The Spit looked very much like a man made raised wall approximately one or two car widths wide that extends out in a straight line into the Derwent River. Perhaps it was a series of rocks that once could be walked upon and then someone dropped filling rocks to create a breakwater to fish from or some other activity. I wonder what the real story is. My guess is that the Spit was named after 19th century settler Richard Cleburne. He was an interesting character who had a property in the area and was suspected of smuggling. Did the Spit figure in such illegal activities I wonder? More information about Richard can be read at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cleburne-richard-1903.
My view across the Derwent took in the noisy Nystar works previously seen and heard on Stage 6 of the walk. Immediately next to Nystar and further north, I could see another major industrial site: Incat, a manufacturer of very large catamarans. In the photo below, a massive white structure has two dark ends. Inside each of these spaces, a new catamaran is being built – usually for an overseas market.
The East Derwent Highway curved in a sweeping right-hand bend from its junction with the road to Cleburne Spit. I walked straight ahead to the River and then curved around to the right keeping parallel with the Highway. Amidst discarded rubbish, straggling weeds and under the casuarina trees I discovered two plaques: one commemorating the beginning of the building of the nearby Bowen Bridge and the second marking the official opening ceremony of the Bridge. On both occasions an Australian Prime Minister was given the honoured task. Two very strong and formidable men: Malcolm Fraser began the bridge and Bob Hawke opened the bridge.
I followed a short bitumen pathway and stood underneath the Bowen Bridge a few minutes after 10am. Eventually I walked beside the guard rail and, depending on the safety of the 'non-path', I walked on one side or the other. Sometimes there was a sandy rough drop to the water below, and sometimes I was walking next to the River at 'sea level'.
By 10.07am I reached the sign indicating I had moved from the Risdon area into the Otago Bay suburb. At 10.11am another sign gave me advance warning that Otago Bay Road was up ahead.
In a pull-off-the-road siding, a middle aged man wearing clean moleskin trousers and a sporting peaked cap advertised new season South Arm Pink Eye potatoes. The back of his truck was open and he sold his vegetables to people who, once their cars had skidded to a halt on the gravelly surface, climbed out of their vehicles for a stretch and then a leisurely meander over to check the goods. There was something slightly furtive about the way he wouldn't meet my eyes which left me wondering why.
The photo below looks southward towards the Bowen Bridge. One of the vehicles in the distance on the right is the truck selling the potatoes.
At 10.18am I turned left off the East Derwent Highway onto Otago Bay Road. The sound of traffic in the distance as it poured along the Highway, and the way the wind boxed my ears, meant it was difficult to hear cars coming behind me. Constantly I was watching my back as I walked along non-existent road verges. I did not discover a safer path for this part of the walk.
Earlier, near the Cleburne Spit, I had exchanged brief friendly words with a woman walking southwards with her dog. When she caught up with me on her northward return journey, we found we had a great deal in common and spent some time walking together towards Otago Bay.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Mount Wellington, Walking and tagged Bowen Bridge, Bridgewater, catamarans, Cleburne Homestead, Cleburne Split, East Derwent Highway, Incat, Nystar, Otago Bay, Otago Bay Road, Pink Eye potatoes, Richard Cleburne, Risdon Cove, smuggling on November 4, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
Yesterday I completed Stage 7 of my walk along the Derwent River
I will write details at length in later posts, however these few words record the walk between Risdon Cove and half way into Old Beach happened amidst spitting rain, strong breezes, gloomy clouds across the northern suburbs, beautiful vistas across the Derwent River, rich native bushlands and bird wandering wetlands, the sunken remains of historic boats, interesting people met along the way, new angles on the mountain (Mt Wellington), and reliable bus services.
I was away from home for around 6 and a half hours, walked about 14 or so kilometres, and covered an extra 8 kms of the Derwent River as it snaked around the suburbs (different from its straight run out to sea on previous walks). All up, I have now covered approximately 34 kilometres of the Derwent River, and the walking experience continues to inspire me.
The photo below shows the sunken remains of the ship Otago. Notice the calm waters of the Derwent River. Sensationally beautiful. Through the branches on the top right of the photo is the blue shape of Mount Wellington. Only when I looked at this photo and registered the relatively small size of our mountain, did I truly understand the distances I have walked from the mouth of the river to this spot on Otago Bay. In the beginning, I was south of the mountain and now I am north. There will come a time when I can no longer see the mountain as I walk along the Derwent River.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Mount Wellington, Walking and tagged Derwent River, Old Beach, Otago, Otago Bay, Risdon Cove, the mountain on November 1, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
Slightly to the north of Otago Bay is the Greater Hobart Area suburb of Old Beach. This suburb must have been settled early in Tasmania's history because wonderful Wikipedia quotes an old postal record: "Old Beach Post Office opened on 11 January 1866 and closed in 1975." I can find no other records indicating the background to this suburb.
According to http://www.yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au/top-suburbs/tas-7017-old-beach.aspx, Old Beach has a population of 3169, the median household weekly income is $1489, the median age of residents is 39 years, almost 60% are married, 45% work full-time and a further 21% work part-time, 59% are buying their own home, and the median monthly house loan repayment is $1517. 97% are living in separate houses as distinct from units or apartments, and semi-detached townhouses etc.
Old Beach is located in the local government area of Brighton Council, which means I will leave the Clarence City Council area for the first time in my walk along the Derwent River (hopefully tomorrow if the weather is suitable). Throughout my walk along the Derwent I will pass through the territories of different municipalities – I will count them up once the walk is over.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Walking and tagged Derwent River, Old Beach, Otago Bay on October 30, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
How common is the name Otago and what is its history?
How did Tasmania come to name its Otago Bay, one of the suburbs in the broader Old Beach area, on my planned Stage 7 of the walk along the Derwent River?
On the Clarence City Council site at http://www.ccc.tas.gov.au/page.aspx?u=1085, Otago Bay was named after the iron barque the Otago, the remains of which can still be seen on the shoreline of Otago Bay. Wikipedia reports that the remains of the Otago (beached in the Bay in 1931) and a steel river steamer the Westralian (beached in 1937) can both still be seen on the beach. The Otago was dismantled at a shipbreaking establishment that operated at the Bay between the 1920s and 1960s. Some excellent current photos of the remains of the Otago can be seen on http://pacific-edge.info/2014/01/otago/. I look forward to clicking my own photographs later this week.
At http://www.nzgeographic.co.nz/archives/issue-78/joseph-conrads-ship, I learned the Otago was commissioned by Captain Angus Cameron and built by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland. Once in Australasian waters, the Otago was used as a regular carrier of coal from Newcastle, New South Wales Australia to New Zealand's city of Dunedin in the early 1870s.
The Otago page on the Parks and Wildlife Service website http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1793 explained that the Otago was a three masted ship built in 1869. In 1872 the barque was transferred from Glasgow to Adelaide, South Australia. The Otago's chief claim to fame is that the vessel was the only command of the famous Joseph Conrad during 1888-9 (Conrad became a well-known novelist using some of his mariner experiences, after he gave up sea faring in the mid-1890s).
The vessel arrived at Hobart in July 1905. In January 1931 the Otago was sold to a local shipbreaker and towed to its present location in Otago Bay. The hulk was partially dismantled for scrap metal in 1937 and more completely in 1957. The bow of the vessel rests on the shoreline with the stern lying in approximately two metres of water. The iron hull has been cut back to the waterline and the bow and stern have disappeared entirely. The remains can easily viewed from the shore as the interior of the hull and the surrounding area contain a quantity of debris that make closer examination hazardous. The photo below, of the Otago, is from the parks and wildlife website.
The Otago at Port Adelaide, c.1900 (in the collection of the Archives Office of Tasmania)
The photo below, dated a decade later, is also from the collection of the Archives Office of Tasmania.
Hulk of the Otago, c.1910
That is all well and good. We know our Otago Bay was named after a boat that was dismantled in its Bay. But what does the name Otago mean? How did the boat get its name?
Otago, a well-known region in the southern island of New Zealand, was settled by people from Scotland starting in 1848. Many people believe the name 'Otago' is a European corruption of the Maori word 'Otakou' which translates as 'village'. It may be fitting to refer to our Otago Bay as a village because its population only numbers a few hundred and it is isolated from other suburbs by the natural landscape. However, there seems to be no connection between our Tasmanian Otago Bay and with Maori culture (although perhaps some New Zealanders live there – I don't know). More than one boat was built in Scotland and named Otago in the second part of the 19th century, so the impact of the Otago region in New Zealand on Scotland was significant.
The founder of the Otago settlement in New Zealand, William Cargill, died in 1860 and a Tasmanian sandstone monument to him was built in Dunedin in 1864. Why Tasmanian sandstone? According to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/otago_bdm1860.htm, son John Cargill stopped by Tasmania in 1841, before he helped his father to settle in Otago. Did John collect some local sandstone during his visit? If so, what an extraordinary thing to do considering the Otago ship eventually had its resting place in the Derwent River.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Walking and tagged Angus Cameron, Clarence City Council, Dunedin, Glasgow, Hobart, John Cargill, Joseph Conrad, Maori, New Zealand, Newcastle, Otago, Otago Bay, Otakou, Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania, Scotland, Tasmania, Westralian, William Cargill on October 29, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.
Weather – please be kind tomorrow
People who live in Hobart know the persistently wet and windy spring weather we have felt and seen for the past few days. This afternoon my windows were pelted with white stones of ice; yes hail. I haven't seen hail for a long while. But I shouldn't be surprised. After a major storm over the mountain (Mt Wellington) this morning, the top half was white with snow. Then strong fronts passed over Tasmania bringing the ferocious inclement weather with it. Stories about the wild weather have been covered in http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/hobarts-hadleys-hotel-damaged-in-storm-squall-with-thousands-of-homes-without-power/story-fnj4f7k1-1227104947517.
But the Bureau of Meteorology indicates a minimal chance of rain tomorrow around Hobart, and cloudy but with a high of 19 degrees. This seems perfect for walking, and I am desperate to get back out there in the fresh air walking along the Derwent. I will be travelling on an early Metro bus 694 ready to get off at Risdon Cove near the intersection of the East Derwent Highway with Saundersons Road, the entry to the suburb or Risdon. I will be walking northwards through two suburbs; Otago Bay and then Old Beach before jumping on a bus to return home in the afternoon.
Right now, looking out from my window, the sky is dark grey, the hills are dark grey and the edges of buildings are blurred by the rain. My fingers and toes are crossed for good weather tomorrow.
This entry was posted in Derwent River, Hobart, Mount Wellington, Walking and tagged Bureau of Meteorology, East Derwent Highway, Old Beach, Otago Bay, Risdon, Risdon Cover, Saundersons Rd, The Mercury on October 28, 2014 by Tasmanian traveller.


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Neil Island Known as the "vegetable bowl" of Andaman Islands for its quality and quantity of agricultural produce, Neil Island is a small settlement 36kms from Port Blair and takes around 2 hours by sea. It also has a decent cattle population and is known for milk production, most of which gets transported to the capital city.
The best beaches to visit on Neil Island are Bharatpur, Sitapur & Lakshmanpur. Among them, Sitapur is considered to be the best. Neil Island is being considered as another 'Havelock in the making'. But we really leave it up to you to decide. It has a small village life with most people occupied with Agriculture or tourism activities. Neil Island is yet another place which is considered ideal for eco-tourism owing to the lush green paddy fields, banana plantations and tropical trees. Sporting activities are picking up pace at Neil Island with a dive center coming up soon. There are a number of private resorts opening up, but for now the Haw bill Nest is the most popular one. It belongs to the Govt. of India.
One can reach Neil Island by taking an early morning boat from the Phoenix Bay jetty at Port Blair at 6:30am every morning. (Single sailing every day, subject to weather conditions)
Two secluded islands far away from the hustle bustle of the city and connected to each other by a thin strip of sandbar; that's Ross & Smith Island for you. The island pair stands as a silent reminder of 'Beauty in Connectedness'.
Everything from traveling to spending time on the islands have an exclusive feel to it. There is a Marine Sanctuary on the island which makes it an ideal place for spotting beautiful coral reefs and colorful species from the underwater. The beach is surrounded by tropical forests and is a preferred place for trekking and trail hiking by many tourists. One can also opt for activities like Scuba Diving & Snorkeling. And the clear blue waters add a touch of cleanliness and to the whole experience. The beach is seldom crowded and many a times tourists find the whole island to themselves alone!
Furthermore, Ross & Smith islands are home to the Olive Ridley turtles which means, being the right place at the right time, one can even witness the turtle nesting! (connect it to Turtle Nesting activity?) Occasionally, wild elephants from the adjacent forests may be spotted on the islands. The Smith island has a small village with about 60 families and accommodation is offered by the Directorate of Tourism. During peak season night stays are not advisable as there might be accommodation scarcity.
It is to be noted that Ross & Smith Islands cannot be visited without prior permission from the Forest Office at Diglipur (opposite the Jetty). The permission costs Rs 50 for Indian tourists and Rs 500 for foreign tourists and can be obtained on all days (except Sunday) between 6am to 2pm.
The twin islands can be reached from Diglipur. No public boats are available. A fisherman's boat ('dongie' in Hindi) or a speed boat can be hired which will cost Rs 1000 at the minimum. The ride would take around 25 mins from the Ariel Bay Jetty in Diglipur. Even while travelling directly from Port Blair, one will have to first halt at Diglipur and then hire a dongie to the islands.
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