Well the first week of life in Hobart has been a whirlwind of information and equipment. All starting as the Taxi from the Airport made its way into the city centre to reveal the 'Aurora Australis' in all its glory. There is some suggestion that it adds an extra post code or city centre to Hobart when it is docked! I have been very fortunate to be put up in a single apartment in the centre of town just walking distance from the ship.

Life at work started with copious amounts of information from computer access to waste management down south. The equipment that is issued is nothing short of extreme, massive carhartt boiler suits that make you look like an Eskimo, down jackets, 2 pairs of sorels for cold and colder, safety sunnies by Bolle and knee high socks. Of course there is more!

Catching the bus each morning and afternoon means that you do actually knock off on-time which seems a foreign concept after the last few years of teaching although there is not that much useable light at 5:30pm.

I finally got my bike out of the warf compound on friday and proceeded to go on a little mission after putting it together. Thank goodness for Ay-Ups as being the newbie in town I don't know where any of the tracks go or finish. Anyway after a late muddy night on Friday I enlisted some local advice from the Avanti Plus store down here. A couple of the boys took me out on the hill (Mt. Wellington) and gave me the heads up, again a muddy experience. I went back for more today and headed to the hills again but had my ride cutshort of the summit by SNOW! Yes thats right it is still falling down here and after emptying the holes in my helmet turned for the bottom.