Hobart

Hove Too
David and Caroline Adams
Tue 12 Feb 2013 09:26

Sorry for missing a day on the blog, too much action. Monday was the last day of the Wooden Boat Festival and we still had to see more things. We bought a new boat, all very exciting.

The show finished off with the Quick and Dirty boat race which consisted of 15 schools making boats from bamboo and bags over the past 2 days, then they had to sail and paddle a course around Constitution Dock. It was a hugely popular spectator event and they got further than I thought they would. At 3pm we had to get rid of water bombing kids and let go lines on boats as the bridge opened for the exodus. Could have been awful but managed to work out well, nobody dead and all boats still floating. We then went out to dinner at the Drunken Admiral, very good food but I gotta do dishes for a while.

Today we took Bill, Noela  and Stu Gilbert along with Caro’s cousins Rob and Antony Heath down the Derwent to Opossum Bay and went fishing, sampled some grapes and ate dead fish. The boys caught a bucket full of flathead with a few whiting thrown in, big cook up and now very full.

As most Wooden Boat Festival tragics return to their states tomorrow, we will get a few jobs done and continue the cruise. Rough plan is good weather at end of week so a rush to get to Port Davey in that window.

For those of you not able to get to the Festival this year I can strongly recommend you put it on the bucket list. A great spectacle, great atmosphere and a rewarding experience.

Down here you don’t even know that politicians live (which may have something to do with not having TV and rarely listening to radio). Could be a good place to hang out till September?

By the way, the new boat we bought is a 20cm long model of a whaling boat, took the guy 200 hours and he made it out of King Billy Pine, just incredible to see the workmanship in it and on display down here.