{"id":2303,"date":"2014-05-12T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T03:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.lewisdrafting.com.au\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2014-05-12T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T03:37:24","slug":"mothers-day-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/?p=2303","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Day Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s nothing like seeing Hobart from the air and that\u2019s exactly what we did yesterday on a seaplane tour from the Derwent River and Hobart down to Port Arthur and back.\u00a0 We enjoyed the views of Mt Wellington and Hobart before flying over Storm Bay in front of our home, passing Bruny Island to the west and the expanse of the Southern Ocean to the south.\u00a0 There was nothing between us and Antarctica (1600km away) except a lot of water!<\/p>\n

Massive dolerite sea cliffs dominate the southernmost tip of the Tasman Peninsula.\u00a0 We flew over Cape Raoul and the world-renowned surf break at Ship Stern Bluff, both places we look across the water to from our home. Our tour took us past some of the most spectacular coastline imaginable. After about 3 hours we returned to Hobart for a delicious lunch at one of our favourite restaurants, Maldini. Maldini Restaurant is an Italian restaurant, situated in an historic stone-fronted warehouse on Hobart\u2019s famed Salamanca esplanade. The sandstone building that houses Maldini Restaurant was built with convict labour in the 1830s. It was one of a row of warehouses on Salamanca Place that occupied a leveled quarry area. Sitting beneath the umbrellas at Maldini\u2019s you have the unmistakable feel of Mediterranean al fresco dining and European caf\u00e9 life. The climate is similar to that of southern Europe. The settled history of this part of Hobart is not as ancient as that of Europe but, for modern Tasmania, this is as historic as it gets.<\/p>\n

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Stewarts Bay Port Arthur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Seals…. Southern Tasmania…left click for a closer view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"CapeRaoul\"<\/a>
Cape Raoul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cape Raoul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hobart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Stunning<\/a>
Stunning views<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pirates<\/a>
Pirates Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Incredible<\/a>
Incredible landscapes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tasman Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We landed at Stewarts Bay for champagne on the beach !!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our plane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Part of the historic Port Arthur site from the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We flew over our home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Coming back into Hobart with Mount Wellington in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Maldini's<\/a>
Maldini’s for lunch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Maldini<\/a>
Maldini Restaurant…..We love the stone building of Salamanca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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There\u2019s nothing like seeing Hobart from the air and that\u2019s exactly what we did yesterday on a seaplane tour from the Derwent River and Hobart down to Port Arthur and back.\u00a0 We enjoyed the views of Mt Wellington and Hobart before flying over Storm Bay in front of our home, passing Bruny Island to the … Continue reading Mothers Day Flight<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-tasmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}