Places we Stayed
I can’t find any record of just where we stayed, and when, but I do remember how pleasant our accommodation was, and at very reasonable...
Category: Work Trips
Hobart – Wrest Point Hotel
We had been booked into the Wrest Point Hotel which is situated right beside the River Derwent. The lower section of the building is a...
Hobart – Town and River
Hobart is on the tidal part of the River Derwent. The Wrest Point Hotel was situated just east of the University and south of the...
Going to Cape Grim
At the end of the meeting we were given the option of visiting the CSIRO Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (CG BAPS) which first...
CSIRO Cape Grim Station
Cape Grim is just south of the isolated north-west tip (Woolnorth Point) of Tasmania. As a premier monitoring stations in the World Meteorological Organisation –...
Mount Field National Park
Having got back from Cape Grim on the Saturday, on Sunday I drove to Mount Field National Park which is about 82 km (51 miles)...
Lake St Clair and Franklin National Parks
A significant fraction of the western half of Tasmania is preserved as National Parks. The Tasmanian Wilderness covers around one fifth of Tasmania’s total area...
Port Arthur
Port Arthur is on the Tasman Peninsula, east of Hobart. From 1833 to 1877 it was a penal settlement where the convicts were employed in...
Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
The WMO Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology was held in the Vancouver Wall Centre Conference Facility and Zoe and I found we had been given...
Stanley Park and Gastown
The core part of Vancouver occupies a peninsula with Stanley Park at its northern tip. The Wall Centre Hotel was situated just southeast of the...