Nice Day in New Norfolk

New Norfolk is a lovely town 40 minutes upsteam on the Derwent River from Hobart. Autumn is the loveliest time to visit.

Poplars are very popular here.

New Norfolk has a precinct called Willow Court which was an old insane asylum. Information about it can be found here and here. This large soldier was standing guard in a window of the administration block.

I wonder if this bus was used to take inmates out on excursions.

This is a door that was probably used in one of the cells. It was about 10cm thick.

Part of an old wagon wheel.

I spotted this hanging in one of the windows.

Someone has left their mark, perhaps about the way the people were treated here.

More photos of New Norfolk (Autumn 2013) are here

Adventure on the Doorstep

Today our adventure took us close to my home but alas I don't have a telephoto lens and missed getting shots of a seal that was fishing nearby, however I captured other things that too my eye. Boating on the bay is very common especially on lovely calm days like it was today.

A juvenile Pacific Gull.

The quaint boat sheds.

Shacks on the hill overlooking the boat ramp.

Drying her wings after a bout of fishing. (Australian Salmon were running today)

Water craft of all shapes and sizes.

Native bluebells which hadn't been seen here for many years before the bushfire but after, they are flourishing.

Looking over to Lime Bay which is on the Tasman Peninsula.

The Tasman Peninsula isn't the only place where there are Tesselated Pavements, we have our own version here.

and the biggest sea shells that I have ever seen in Tasmania

Oyster Catchers

Even the weeds look pretty.

Goat Bluff, O'Possum Bay and Clifton Beach

On the way to South Arm, we stopped at Goat Bluff and looked down the cliff face and Black Jack Rock (below).

A lone surfer getting ready to hit the water at Goat's Beach.

A beautiful Banksia

The Iron Pot in Storm Bay at the mouth of the Derwent River.

Hope Beach

The jetty at O'Possum Bay with Mt Wellington in the distance.

The rock formations with a boat shed built into the cliff.

I spotted a Christmas tree on the deck of a holiday house made out of thongs (flip-flops). Very creative and very Aussie.

Cray pot hidden in the long grass.

The sheds and beach houses are right on the beach.

A beach house with its own light house.

There were a lot of dead crabs on the beach.

A dinghy waiting to be taken out.

A very colourful door for this shack.

There is a moth somewhere minus a wing.

and a crab without a shell.

Clifton Beach

A very popular spot for surfers, even in the last week of March.

and paddle boarders

A very unusual roof line on a beach house.