A late entry, delayed by having to sail away. We stayed in Hobart for a few extra days in order to attend the biennial Australian Wooden Boat Show.

 

 

Here is your hero being shown the intricacies of a steam launch (scratch built, including the engine, by the owner and completed the previous day after several years’ work):

 

 

And a highlight of the Show, a demonstration of traditional timber-getting featuring a traditional bullock team:

 

 

But the real highlight was the reunion of Alison with her long-lost cousin Mark Chilton who emigrated to Australia as a child. Her is the moment, after about 35 years apart: