To say we are pleased with our purchase is a HUGE understatement. The view is just perfect. From everywhere on the block we can see clearly across the river from the Tasman Bridge to the north to Kingston to the south.
As we are up high on the hill, we look over the top of the houses below.
The next step is to start working with the designers and get our plans drawn up ready for the builder. Our builder anticipates we should be ready to start midway through 2022 with completion late 2022- early 2023.
Every Sunday, Hobart has a Farmers Market in the CBD. We decided to get the bus to the city and have a look around.
It was a quick 20 minute trip on the bus from the Shoreline shops to the Elizabeth St Mall in the centre of town.
The farmers market is good but did have limited stalls thanks to CoVid and also a number of stall holders had taken the Christmas break as a holiday.
We bought some lovely “melty” cheese from a farmer to make ham and cheese toasties for our dinner.
From the market, we walked down to the waterfront. Even here CoVid restrictions had changed things, with the winning yacht of the Sydney-Hobart being parked away from the main wharf. Ordinarily, the public is able to chat with the sailors from the wharf side.
Wandering along the marina, I noticed something you don’t see in every marina…A PLANE!!
We decided on a fisherman’s basket from the famous Mure’s seafood restaurant.
After lunch, we walked to the corner of Argyle and Davey St to prove unequivocally that I AM silly 🙂
For some time I have been looking at the Tas Traffic cameras and I really wanted to “be on camera” 🙂
The cameras refresh every 30 seconds or so, hence I did not have to wait long before I could see us on the camera.
The resolution is low, so you will have to take my word for it that the blobs in the circles are us 🙂
We caught the bus back to the Eastern Shore. We decided to get off the bus at Eastland Shopping centre ta have a look around. Eastlands is Tasmania’s largest shopping centre and has two floors of shops.
One level has Coles and Kmart and the upper floor has Woolworths and BigW as well as many specialty stores.
Back on the bus we returned to Shoreline and had a cuppa before having a quote afternoon and then making our toasties for dinner.
A quiet day of sightseeing today. We decided to head south along the Huon River. It is a lovely pretty river with rolling hills and large orchards.
We arrived at Franklin at around lunchtime, and the Lady Franklin Hotel looked good for a meal. We have eaten here before and we remembered it was a nice meal with great views overlooking the Huon River.
After lunch, we took a left turn toward Glen Huon to visit Nick Haddow’s dairy farm shop. We thought it may have been closed and it was. It is not open again until the 4th of January.
Back onto the Huon Hwy, we took a right hand turn toward Kingston Beach to take the scenic Channel Hwy route back to Hobart along the coast. This road takes in the suburbs of Taroona and Sandy Bay before heading back through Hobart city, across the Tasman Bridge and home.
At Taroona, I realised we were looking across the Derwent to “our” hill. So, of course, I had to take a photo 🙂
Once back at the hotel, I sent off a couple of messages to the land owner and our builder to arrange a meet up with each of them. We are meeting with the builder on Tuesday.
A quick dinner of BBQ Chicken and vegetables, a quiet night of TV finished off the day nicely.
