Cityscape IV: Memories of Mawson

If you don't know who Douglas Mawson was, look him up right now. 

How he survived his Australasian Antarctic Expedition is a story worth hearing.

It's nice to see public memorials to him in Hobart, although I still feel that he should be better known that he is.

Even if he is remembered in more than one way:

Cityscape III: Skylines

Waterscape III: The May Queen

The magnificent Dame, the May Queen. 

The Dame with seagull.

I think it's been rigged, don't you? (*ducks* Sorry, sorry, I know...)

Cityscape III: Bird's Eye View

Cityscape II: Good Morning Hobart

Cityscape I: Red Lights at Night

Moonscape II: Scooby-Doo Nights

Nothing says 'Scooby-Doo' quite as effectively as dark clouds partially obscuring a full moon. 

"Beware! There be mysterious comings and goings down by the docks after midnight!"

Cue the theremin music. 

...

"I'd've gotten away with it if it weren't for you rotten kids!"

Moonscape I: Indigo Sky, Black Water

Waterscape II: Two worlds

The working vessel and the bright lights beyond. 

And a similar setting during morning hours:

Waterscape I: Lights on the Water at Dusk

My first walk around the harbour. 

It looked as though Hobart was throwing on all its glittering jewellery for the evening...

Seascape II: Layers of Hobart's Harbour

You can see the type of warehouses and associated dockland buildings of the kind of working harbour it might have been in the past. 

Now, although there are many fishing boats moored up, many of the buildings have taken up new lives as restaurants.

Seascape I: Harbourside Hobart

The first photo from the elevator/lobby area on my floor (before I'd even gotten I my room!)

I'm pleased to say by the way, that my room had this same view too!

(Photoshopped only with a warming filter, 'cos it was nearing 5pm and dusk was settling in).

Oh, and lest you be fooled into thinking that the traffic in the foreground represents the sum of Hobart peak hour, believe me, that road could get a lot busier!