Monthly Archives: February 2019

If you enjoyed my jaunt to Tasman Island then read on. Starting today Friday 8th February, the weekend long Tasmanian Wooden Boat Festival will get underway.  Centred on the Hobart wharf and stretching from Hunter St towards Salamanca all manner … Continue reading →

Gradually the number of people on the island decreased. I was on the second last ‘copter to fly away. I watched the loadings and the diminishing numbers.Before then, at the end of the afternoon, I watched the sky presenting anew.  … Continue reading →

Three houses, other small buildings, and a few simple old and new structures are the evidence of over 100 years of the social history associated with the lighthouse.               Wed 6th Feb

At the view point for Cape Pillar, in an easterly direction a barely existing track continued to the bottom of the almost vertical dolerite cliffs as the remnant of the path that the motorised trolleys followed. Read more here. At … Continue reading →

At the end of the main track Tasman Island dropped steeply to the sea.  In a northerly direction, over the watery gap,  Cape Pillar, at the southern tip of the Tasman Peninsula, took all my attention.  I watched as people … Continue reading →

Prior to our visit, the FOTI volunteers had prepared the way for the influx of visitors.  The tracks and areas on which we were permitted to walk had been mown, and we were instructed not to deviate from these. Tasman … Continue reading →

Once I left the Tasman Island lighthouse I meandered over to a nearby brick outbuilding, generally sniffed around it, moved across to an outdoor storage area, and then stood and studied the bushes and plant in the no go zone … Continue reading →

The Tasman Island lighthouse was originally commissioned in 1906. The lighthouse has been unmanned since 1977 after automation took over in 1976. After I left the helicopter landing area, I walked to the lighthouse and determined to climb to the … Continue reading →