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After I left the Market, I stopped in at the museum to look around. I don’t know much about boat stuff and was sure wishing that both Tucker and Chad were along on this little venture.

I think these guys look a lot like the old cowboys did sitting around the campfire.

This is the structure that you go down into on a ship to get below decks. I really like the woodwork on boats.

I had to get down on my hands and knees to check out the fine detail on this deck hatch cover or what ever it is called. Amazing wood work.

isn’t this remnant of a figurehead fantastic? I think this was my favourite thing in the museum.

A whale harpoon gun made of iron. It is a good thing they didn’t have to pack them very far.

I had to take a picture of this chair because it remindes me of the chair I bought lsat year in Miles City. It is an old oak chair that was made to bolt to the floor like this one. In the old days they had paddle wheel boats that came up to Miles City and I wonder if it could be a chair from one of those boats.

I got this note from Sabina up in Kangaroo Island that i stayed with a week ago....
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Didn't get to talk to you about it here but our river "Stun'sail Boom" is named after a ship wreck at the mouth of the river where you went with Raff and the girls. The Studding sail and the Boom were found washed up on the beach you went to. When the French trading ship "Montebello" wrecked all 9 sailers (and the ships dog) managed to get ashore and walked up the river for help. They got to Tilka Hut (just below our house on the flats) and found the 2 spinster Tilka sisters living there, where they were fed, warmed and clothed. One of them rode her horse to Vivonne Bay for help and Ernie May (who she later married) rode his horse for 2 days to get help in Kingscote. A telegraph was sent and the Steamer Musgrave was detoured from passage to Tasmania to our coast to try to pull the Montebello from the rocks. She couldn't get close enough (and she was breaking up badly) so they signalled the crew on the beach to walk to Vivonne (15 km from here) and she would collect them and take them to Adelaide for repatriation to France. While waiting in Adelaide for a ship home to France the crew pooled some gold coins and had it melted down into a gold pendant enscribed something like "with eternal thanks to Ernie May in the event of the sinking of the Montebello at the Stunsail Boom River mouth - Captain xxxx and crew". That pendant is now next door with Doug Seton, although the general belief is that it belongs here on the Boom for the Tilka sisters (represented by the Douglas-Hill sisters!!).

The guy that sold me the ticket to go into the museum came over and visited with me about boating. He said that I should hang around for next weekend as there would be five to six hundred wooden boats that would come into the harbor. It is something that they do every three years and boats come from all over the world for this. They raft them a lot of them together and you are able to go aboard and look around on them. even climb the rigging if you want. That does sound pretty interesting and if I am still on the island I might have to come back down and check it out. I sure am dumb about boats though, wish I had help ‘seeing’ them. This is one of the oldest boats still sailing in this harbor.

I stopped at the Woolworth store to get some groceries and noticed this flower on the plant that was growing on the parking lot wall.

The girls at my supper table here at the YHA hostel in Hobart. It is always nice to have a group of beautiful women to talk with. Lets see, on the left is from Ireland, then Swiss and finally the red hair belongs to an Aussie.