Signal Station Mt Nelson

We decided to do a bit of sightseeing today by car looking at the sights rather than say going into Hobart and walking around the city, we may do that another day.
So we set out for Mount Wellington the mountain backdrop to Hobart, but while we were driving along the hwy we noticed a sign to Mount Nelson so thought we would give it a look see, and we are so glad that we did as the sights from this place are spectacular and I’m starting to believe that there is no city in Australia that could claim to be more scenic .
The signal station is from the days before radio so that the only way to communicate with the ships coming close to Hobart was to use signal flags raised up the jolly old flagpole.Read more