Saturday, July 30, 2011

Fridays on the Island: Day 10

Hello all,

Writing this one a bit late because of a downed connection late last night. Currently doing laundry and well typing this up.

Yesterday was a slow morning for me. Woke up in the middle of the night with stomach pains and feeling, well, not so good. Probably something I ate. Anyway, this kinda caused me to sleep in, like big time. Once waking up and getting a shower I was off, around 9:30am, not too bad. It had rained the night before so it was a nice 61 degrees and fresh, hiking to campus.

Looking over the main bay

This best describes the warmth of the day

The day consisted of me reading papers and familiarizing myself with local vegetation around the area. After a day of that, Nathan and I headed to get something to eat at one of the pubs. We went out with a few of the graduate students from the Uni and got to see the night life of Hobart. Pretty fun stuff. Besides that not much else was on the agenda.

Today, we are going to the local art festival they have every weekend and then traveling down to the tessellated pavement south of Hobart. We may even get a chance to tour the local brewery here, which is also the oldest one in Australia, Cascade Brewery.

Have fun back home.


Cheers

Shane

2 comments:

  1. Shane, have you heard anything about the Malahide family? The family used to own a castle in Ireland but moved to Tasmania in the 70s.

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  2. I have not. I'll see what I can get by asking around.

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