Veronika Wild

Endangered Species at the Mummelsee - a popular tourist stop on the B500. Her predecessor who had been created as part of an Art Trail around the lake was stolen in 2011, much to the disappointment of art lovers and the community All Saints Falls - Die Drei Heiligen Fired up by the 'success' of my first mission, I thought I’d try for the All Saints Waterfall next, a semi famous one built on the site of a C12th monastery, steeped in legends and a good way along the B500. I’d heard there was a bus there too, but the lady at the Transport Information Bureau which has its back to the public, hadn’t heard of the waterfall, let alone the bus. This is the front of the Transport Information Office. The actual entrance is hidden around the other side on the right, not the left This is it - It says "Entrance to the Parking Garage" By her accent I could tell that like so many workers here, the person behind the counter was not from  here, but she made no effort to find out...

  A magnificent sight on Hobart's Waterfront on the weekend Aye me Hearties! Before we go back to Germany again, I thought you might like a few glimpses of Hobart's Wooden Boat Festival which is held in Hobart every second year. It’s a wonderful sight to see the great tall ships lying at anchor in the harbour just as they might have two hundred years ago. Boats and visitors come from all over the world for this and this year there were some 60,000 visitors over the four days. Sadly, at least one ship didn’t quite make it. The Goondaloo, a historic pilot ship which used to ply Sydney Harbour, sank on the way here.  Scrambling down Kelly's Steps from Battery Point  I was a bit worried at first as I hurried down Kelly’s Steps - the sandstone stairway built by Captain James Kelly in about 1840, so that it wouldn’t take him as long to get to work. Not many of the usual cafés in Salamanca Place were open and Salamanca Square behind the sandstone warehouses also seemed rathe...