Females, freezing mountain and fascinating museum

Cascade Female Factory, the place where many female convicts were sent when they arrived in Hobart, is just south of Hobart and provided us with an insight to one particular woman's arrival. We attended the 11AM performance of Her Story and were impressed.
The site does not have any of the original buildings but has marked areas impressed on the ground showing the locations of walls. With the performance the walls appeared to come up from the ground and we were taken to the past.

Afterwards, we drove to the top of Mount Wellington to see the view from the top.  But as we drove up and up the cloud rolled in, the rain come down, then the sleet, and at the very top, snow!

It was cold, and for some stupid reason we ran across the car park to the enclosed viewing area to look out at the.... clouds!  We read all the boards and signs in the building and then scooted to the other building in the freezing temperatures. Thinking the other building would have more info we entered, to find it was a toilet block.

After descending back down the mountain we were off to M.O.N.A. and found it a bizarre mix of very old to very modern art.  In the same area there were Egyptian mummies and some art only created as it would seem weeks ago, There was even a wall representing a female body part,using plaster moulds, I won't go into detail, but from memory there were over 70 different ones mounted on the wall at head height.

 

The afternoon was spent with a little relaxation and of course laundry.

Tomorrow... more convicts.