Last day in Tasmania

Today (Oct 28) was museum day, but first we were on an errand to find a place to print our boarding passes for the flight back to Sydney that evening.
That done, we wandered through shops for a bit and managed to find some items we had been looking for.

On the walk back down the hill we found a military museum that was interesting.

My favorite thing was a model of the underground tunnels used by the Vietnamese in the last war. You might not be able to see the detail, but there were traps, air vents, sleeping areas and munitions rooms, all connected by tunnels.

From the fort we had a view of Hobart spreading up the mountainside.



A woman gave us the following instructions for getting around in Hobart.
"Just look up the street and if you see a mountain then the sea is the other direction so you can't get lost."







Here is a view of some trees in a park where we had lunch after the museum.
As you see, one has new leaves, one has full leaves and one has none. It just looks weird to us and impossible to recognize the season. The native trees here are green all year but there are many trees from the northern hemisphere which loose their leaves however even they seem confused about just when to do it.

In the afternoon we joined a guided tour at the main Hobart museum. It is a wonderful place with interesting exhibits including an interactive one on the Antarctic which I especially liked. I also enjoyed the animal section. They have so many unique and wonderful animals here. There was a marsupial tiger that is now thought to be extinct. They had a film of it so we even saw one of those.

Hobart too has a long history of being a correctional colony for the British.

Later we took one last walk by the wharf and then caught the evening flight back to Sydney.