"Oz Fest #5" - Hobart TASMANIA - Memorial Day weekend May 23-25, 2008
Jun 22, 2007, 9:30 am
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When researching my post above on airfares to Hobart from Sydney I decided the $A75 each way inc all taxes directs on Virgin was a steal too good to pass up, so MargoOz and I booked one for latter August so we can have a look around. 
I feel sure the organising Committee will add a full day at Port Arthur, and link that with the Tasmania Devil place on the Sunday, which is pretty much an all day tour. so again, those booking well out in advance might be wise to leave SUNDAY flights til evening.
I feel sure the organising Committee will add a full day at Port Arthur, and link that with the Tasmania Devil place on the Sunday, which is pretty much an all day tour. so again, those booking well out in advance might be wise to leave SUNDAY flights til evening.
This Salamanca Market in the Hobart city centre is a tradition down there, and runs most of Saturday:
http://www.southcom.com.au/~davids/salamancamarket/
Every hippie and alternative lifestyle person living in Tasmania seems to have a stall there.
http://www.southcom.com.au/~davids/salamancamarket/
Every hippie and alternative lifestyle person living in Tasmania seems to have a stall there.
Glen[/QUOTE]
Jun 22, 2007, 2:57 pm
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I loved Tasmania when I visited in 1994.........breathtaking vistas(spent 3 days at the Cradle Mountain Lodge) some of the best seafood ever (Hobart) and I felt I was taking a trip back in time.....would love to do this DO to see if and how much it has changed.
Unfortunately I am a Skymiles sort and will need to figure out how to do the trip with DL partners......there is a quiet rumor that DL might be doing AKL....that would certainly help.....otherwise I see (yawn....) MLB/ATL/ICN/SYD then stay a few days, fly to Hobart, back to SYD and the Skymiles itinerary in reverse......I should probably start flying now....
Unfortunately I am a Skymiles sort and will need to figure out how to do the trip with DL partners......there is a quiet rumor that DL might be doing AKL....that would certainly help.....otherwise I see (yawn....) MLB/ATL/ICN/SYD then stay a few days, fly to Hobart, back to SYD and the Skymiles itinerary in reverse......I should probably start flying now....
Jun 22, 2007, 4:26 pm
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Jun 22, 2007, 4:40 pm
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Jun 22, 2007, 5:54 pm
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Mike - if you are willing to give up a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon I can point you in the direction of the Family history resource centre at Bellerieve. VERY useful ladies and library. If you email them before hand they can have stuff ferretted out for you as well. There is also the state archives in the centre of town.
I've also made extensive use of on-line archives for NSW, Victoria & Tasmania.I will probably spend more than just the DO in Tasmania; overall it willl be a ~ 2.5 week trip for us. It might help me if the Port Arthur visit could be on the first or last day.
Jun 22, 2007, 6:10 pm
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Jun 22, 2007, 6:23 pm
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Well seeing I wont have to fly to be here...I guess so!! (dependant of course on a whole pile of stuff including PhD/conferences etc....OOOH I could pick brains about best way to get to Brazil for the Conference next year!)
Jun 22, 2007, 7:11 pm
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Jun 22, 2007, 8:40 pm
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Put me down as Gold right now. I don't know where I'm likely to be that far out, but at this stage it looks promising...
Jun 22, 2007, 9:54 pm
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To ANYONE considering coming to OZfest #5 I have one word for you - LAYERS.
Jun 22, 2007, 10:10 pm
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TIMP .. welcome on board .. a local on the ground is absolutely invaluable!
As to WEATHER .. can I please add a word of reality for the benefit of overseas readers.
Yesterday was the shortest day of the year, i.e. we are in absolutely deepest "Winter" in Australia.
To those who are already signed up from Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Washington DC, that term "Australian Winter" is a joke of course. You'd be wearing short sleeve shirts here today, seeing it is mid fifties temperature.
As noted in post #1 in general Hobart is generally a couple of degrees below Melbourne weather as it is more south.
HOWEVER, to put thing into perspective, the current national weather map is:
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/
Showing the minimum (and for our American friends these are ºC figures!) in Hobart today to be WARMER than Adelaide and much higher than Canberra (2 places popular with some for OzFest 5) and just 2 degrees colder than either MEL or SYD. i.e. even in our chilly winter here today Hobart is 54ºF max (=12º C).
And as history has shown us 4 years in a row for OzFests, late May is a whole different ball game to late June I must stress that again - where temps have been 30º F degrees warmer than today most times.
Glen
As to WEATHER .. can I please add a word of reality for the benefit of overseas readers.
Yesterday was the shortest day of the year, i.e. we are in absolutely deepest "Winter" in Australia.
To those who are already signed up from Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Washington DC, that term "Australian Winter" is a joke of course. You'd be wearing short sleeve shirts here today, seeing it is mid fifties temperature.
As noted in post #1 in general Hobart is generally a couple of degrees below Melbourne weather as it is more south.
HOWEVER, to put thing into perspective, the current national weather map is:
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/
Showing the minimum (and for our American friends these are ºC figures!) in Hobart today to be WARMER than Adelaide and much higher than Canberra (2 places popular with some for OzFest 5) and just 2 degrees colder than either MEL or SYD. i.e. even in our chilly winter here today Hobart is 54ºF max (=12º C).
And as history has shown us 4 years in a row for OzFests, late May is a whole different ball game to late June I must stress that again - where temps have been 30º F degrees warmer than today most times.
Glen
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Jun 23, 2007, 2:19 am
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To be fair though the actual temperature means nothing unless you take the windchill factor into consideration. Melbourne was very cold, for me anyway, during Oz fest IV recently. Hobart is always cold.
Jun 23, 2007, 2:27 am
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You're just used to all the hot air that filters through FT & AFF.
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Jun 23, 2007, 8:55 pm
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that 12C was for about 2 seconds at 2pm. Today we have yet to make double figures yet its sunny, and actually quite nice in the sun. May is an odd month in HBA. Daylight saving has finished, so we are all complaining that its getting dark early, there is still the ocassionally warm day that involves short sleeves, but we are all manically scratching around in boxes looking for our winter coats. You just need a tiny bit of damp and teh temperature drops drastically.