Devonport closes at 8:00PM literally everything, so if your ferry is late and you want to walk to your accommodation your going to be eating trail mix for dinner!

So breakfast was very welcome this morning. Had time for a quick wandering down the river before heading to the bus.

The plaque reads this is for the “Soroptimist Club of Devonport” who ever new? Soroptimist International is a worldwide volunteer service organization for women who work for peace, and in particular to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. There you go right there in Devonport.

Devonport feels very familiar, the foreshore is dotted with Norfolk Pines and Pohutukawa trees. Traveling to Hobart via bus, the country is so like Hawke’s Bay where I grew up in NZ, sheep, sheep trucks, rolling hills, popular and oak trees as well as gums and silver birches. Everything is very brown at the moment. As we head through the Traditional Muwinina Lands.

Very quickly we are in the suburbs of Hobart and then into the CBD. I went straight to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, they have an excellent presentation about the original inhabitants of Tasmania. With this beautiful welcome to country at the start of the exhibition.

From the Museum just a short walk to the YHA, it’s a fantastic building and feels very Harry Potter with stairs everywhere.

After some R&R I headed down to see Queen Elizabeth who is in town today.

A great place to walk around with so many interesting sights and plenty of places to eat.

Distance Traveled 280kM

Distance Walked 10KM

People bumped into at Constitution Dock I know from the Blue Mountains 1