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Tag: Hobart

2023 Grand World Voyage, MV Zuiderdam1 Comment

Tall Ships and Long Memories

February 19, 2023February 19, 2023 Rich McClear

I first learned about Hobart from Pop.  During the Second World War he was on a troop ship, the George Washington, sailing from San Francisco to Calcutta (as it was then known).  They zigged and zagged for weeks.  The first … Continue reading Tall Ships and Long Memories

2023 Grand World Voyage, MV Zuiderdam2 Comments

MONA

February 19, 2023February 19, 2023 Rich McClear

David Walsh has gifted Hobart and the world with a strange and wonderful institution.  MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art, is dug into a sandstone headland that juts into Derwent River 12 kilometers from Hobart.  You can reach … Continue reading MONA

Cruises, MS Amsterdam Grand World Voyage, 2018Leave a comment

Public Art and Pocket Parks — Hobart

February 15, 2018February 15, 2018 Rich McClear

I am writing this Thursday afternoon.   Wednesday we were hove to off the island of Tasmania, nose into the wind, blowing up to 90 knots, surrounded by green water, 9 meter (29 foot) seas and making no process.  We made … Continue reading Public Art and Pocket Parks — Hobart

Cruises, MS Amsterdam Grand World Voyage, 20182 Comments

Fulfilling Pop’s Dream – Cruising into Hobart.

February 15, 2018February 15, 2018 Rich McClear

To my dad Hobart was a kind of heaven.  He had been on a troop ship, the Washington, for a long time out of San Francisco.  The Japanese had reported sinking her but she zig zagged safely through the North … Continue reading Fulfilling Pop’s Dream – Cruising into Hobart.

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