Battery Point

 Battery Point Sculpture Trail

https://www.greaterhobarttrails.com.au/track/battery-point-sculpture-trail/

Today we are walking around the waterfront looking for large numerical sculptures that provide a fascinating introduction to Hobart’s history. Each sculpture along this international-award winning trail represents a weight, measure, time, quantity, date or distance linked to a story about that place.

We started from Wrest Point and made our way around to Marieville Esplanade for the first sculpture.

Born in 1909, Errol Flynn lived nearby

We cross a little bridge and toil up Napoleon Street

There is a 24 inside the translucent box, representing 24 hours a day of fires lit by Aboriginal people or Whalers

Remains of a winch capable of hauling 1250 tonne ships from the water.

A wander through the streets of Battery Point

313 ships were launched here in the 1800s

Hedgerows and walls dominate this area which was subdivided in 1923 rather than being kept as a park for the public

Thinking of the women who walked to work in canneries and the jam factory, as well as men in furnaces, factories and shipyards.

The  finish line of the 628nm Sydney Hobart race.

Into Salamanca Place

The year when convicts were clearing the site for the building the Georgian stone warehouses.

We made our way up Kelly's Steps to lunch

After lunch we headed downhill and took Nanny Goat Lane back to our cars 

There were 21 Ramblers, lunch was at The Shipwrights Arms/Shippies.

Map

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