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    • TravelerTasmanien 2016 bis 2017
      Day 7

      Klettern im Waterworks Quarry

      November 16, 2016 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 11 °C

      Bei recht schönem Wetter haben wir mal den tasmanischen Dolerite angetestet. Mit den Bewertungen tun wir uns aber noch ein wenig schwer. Eigentlich ist ne Australische 12 so UIAA 3+, aber das hat sich definitiv anderst angefühlt🙈Read more

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    • Svata CoupkovaTASMANIA, Australia
      Day 10

      Hobart

      October 16, 2015 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Patecni cekani na to, az se Tony vrati z prace a budeme moct konecne vyrazit z mesta, jsem si kratila v jedne z nejvyznamejsich vezenskych historickych pamatek Tasmanie, Cascade Female Factory. Z vezeni pro zeny (ktere tvorily snad 15 % vsech deportovanych veznu) toho do dnesni doby moc nezbylo. Jen obvodove kamenne zdi a dum pro hlavni dozorkyni. V 50. letech 19. stoleti tu ale bylo prelidneno zenami (a jejich detmi), ktere v domovske Anglii kradly, podvadely, prostituovaly...
      No a pak jsem se po ceste zpet domu podivala do par docela hezkych kostelu vcetne St. David's Cathedral.      Read more

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    • Michelle CreasyTasmania 2023
      2222
      Day 2

      Tours of Hobart

      October 21, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 14 °C

      The forecast was for 20-40mm of rain today but up until about 4pm when I was walking back to the hotel it was mostly just drizzle.

      I started the day at the Salamanca Markets. Visiting the markets was the reason I arrived on a Friday. There was lots of Tasmanian produce but a large proportion was alcohol (gin and whisky) and honey. I did make some purchases - flavoured salts and some goats cheese.

      The markets were followed by the hop on hop off bus. Fortunately there weren’t many people on the bus as it was too wet to sit upstairs in the open. I got off at the Cascades Brewery and walked down to the Cascades Female Factory. The walk was very pretty. I made it just in time for a tour. It was fascinating and sobering at the same time. Women, and poor women in particular as well as their children were not treated well in Van Diemen’s land. There isn’t much left of the actual buildings but they’ve done a great job with recreating the atmosphere of the site.

      I was back in the city about 1:40pm and had looked at several options for what to do next. My first two choices weren’t running (perhaps due to the weather) but a boat tour of the harbour had availability. I had some time so went around the corner to the replica of Mawson’s hut. The 1911-14 expedition left from across the road of the replica hut. This was also quite a sobering experience but did justice to the men who took part in the expedition.

      The harbour cruise was interesting, we went north under the Tasman bridge and around a few bays. I may have seen a fur seal. The tour leader pointed it out on some rocks however he was at the front of the boat and we were at the back so it took a little while for us to go past it. He did say it was blending into the rock so I’m still not sure whether what I saw was a seal or a rock.

      On our return I headed back to Salamanca Place and took a look at the Tassel Salmon shop but didn’t find anything interesting enough to purchase. I went around the corner to pick up something for dinner. Going out for dinner was originally in the plan but I was tired and the rain is expected to get worse so eating in seemed the better option. I did purchase some smoked wallaby. Tasmania is the only place you can legally prepare Wally for human consumption. It was nice, very similar to other smoked meats. I definitely recommend it.      Read more

    • Duncan GrantTasmania
      Day 11

      Cascades Female Factory

      November 2, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

      This is Australia's most significant site associated with the female convict story , and forms part of the Australian Convict sites World Heritage listing. Between 1788 and 1853 some 25,000 women convicts were transported to Australia for their crimes. Approximately half came to Tasmania, having five of the colony's female factories. Overcrowding was evident and these women worked, slept, ate, prayed and gave birth within the 13 feet walls. Infant mortality was extremely high and once a child reached 3 years of age it was removed and placed in an orphanage. This was the last time most children and their mothers ever saw each other.
      Work was difficult, working unrelenting hours in appalling cold conditions. They were tired , dirty and poorly feed.
      Photos :
      Walls of the prison yard.
      The 7.5kg hot iron-used in the laundry, several of these irons in use to work was continuous. The only protection for their hands from the scorching hot handles was a course piece of cloth.
      Bonnets, one with name Ann Kelly-a meditation on stitching the number of days needed to mark off a 14 year sentence. The other ornate bonnet depicts a date, unknown if year of freedom or conviction.
      The aim was for a bonnet to be made to honor each female convict at the site.      Read more

    • Tasmania - April 2024
      Day 9

      Margaret Cusack

      April 20 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

      It was another early start today as we headed into Hobart to get to the Salamanca Markets. 19 years ago we finished our stay in Hobart and bought our salt and pepper grinders here - still the same markets, but a lot more people!
      After spending what felt like the National debt of a small nation, we walked back to the Penitentiary Prison for a tour.
      When we arrived we looked around for a while before being let into one of the former wings of the Church, which was converted to the Supreme Court of Tasmania.
      Sitting in what were the witnesses boxes our guide Angela, asked if anyone had convict ancestors. I put my hand up and said that I also had an ancestor who had worked at the prison.
      She then stated to talk of some of the convicts and how they suffered and the impact upon their life expectancy and then said that her grandmother’s grandmother was a convict named Margaret Cusack and she lived to 103. Well you could have knocked me over with a feather. I just said “we’re related”.
      After the tour we spoke for a while and exchanged details so we can keep in touch and can find out more - her elderly aunt has done some family history work.
      My convict heritage knowledge only started 19 years ago when I dispelled the family myth of being related to Charles Dickens. Interestingly Angela said that her family lived opposite a penal facility (Cascades maybe) for 20 years unbeknownst to them that Margaret had been a convict.
      We wanted to make the tour at the Cascades Female Factory so had to Uber back to our car, grab some lunch at the markets on the run through and race to the Cascades Female Factory.
      Not much remains of the original buildings - demolished as part of the push to remove the convict stain. Three of the five yards still exist with the original high boundary walls but the remainder are marked out with various materials, including the tiny cells that women like Margaret lived in.
      The stories we heard were for the earlier days of the place, Margaret arriving in the later years. She had a child whilst in the Factory, who is listed on a wall of children born in the factory. The overwhelming majority of babies died - Stephen Cusack was one of the exceptions and live until his 70s.
      After Cascades we drove up Mt Wellington just in time to catch sunset.
      Dinner was at the Cascade Brewery.      Read more

    • Traveler9-month adventure in Tasmania
      Day 12

      Morning walk in Hobart, TAS

      April 29, 2018 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 12 °C

      What a wonderful Sunday morning. Took a short 15 min walk up the road to waterworks reservoir and I certainly wasn't disappointed :)
      Not only was the forest absolutely stunning, but I also saw my first Pademelon in the wild (followed by 5 more right away) and got a decent photo of the 'punk' among the birds!
      Finished the day with a surf session at Clifton Beach ☺️      Read more

    • TravelerTasmania and back 2019
      Day 97

      Bothwell day 3

      May 9, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

      We have decided that as we are only 60kms from Hobart we will drive there to visit the Historical Cascades Women’s Factory, this place has been semi restored and set up to show the conditions that the convict women had to endure. They were kept in very harsh conditions worked for 12 hours per day fed a very poor diet and punished for the slightest mistakes, it they were good and worked hard they were deemed suitable for being loaned out to settlers as free labour but were often raped by their new masters and when they fell pregnant were sent back to the Factory to be punished for not being able to work, which entailed spending time in solitary confinement this also was the punishment for any type of sickness, if they couldn’t work then it was off to the cells.
      The only original building is the matrons house all the rest were destroyed during a bushfire.
      The buildings have not been rebuilt but the various areas have been represented by using floor markings and a couple metal structures to indicate the sizes ie the cells and the toilet.
      All in all it was a very enlightening day today.      Read more

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