Mount Wellington, Hobart, Tasmania, Friday 13 October 2023
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View from top of Mt Wellington.

This is at the top of Mount Wellington in Tasmania, not in Auckland, Victoria, New York or British Columbia.  It hangs above Hobart and seems to be in a different climatic zone.  While the weather in Hobart may be placid and consistent, the top of Mount Wellington is known for the possibility of all four seasons in one day.  You might go to a commanding viewpoint somewhere and experience warm, still, clear weather with a brilliant sun and no clouds ion the sky.  We were much luckier than that and it was cold, windy and raining.  We were probably in the cloud layer which gave the appearance of heavy fog and shortly after we arrived, the rain turned to sleet.

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These first three images though were taken in the Pinnacle Observation Shelter, out of the weather, through a picture window.

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Quite a range of colours as well as tones..

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I had full wet weather gear and a camera rain cover, so I ventured out into the weather and made for the North East Viewing Platform.  This is looking down from the edge of the platform.

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To fully appreciate these images, perhaps you should sit in a fridge for a little while, then stand in front of roaring cold fans while viewing them.

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There’s a delicate fade from the detail of the plants in the foreground to the foggy rocks and trees beyond.

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One imagines that if you were bushwalking in weather like this, you wouldn’t want to leave a marked trail for too long.

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I was just about to leave and suddenly it started to clear.  That is Hobart and the River Derwent down below in the distance.

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Distant hills also started to appear.

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Another view towards Hobart and the River Derwent.  It almost looks as though there might have been an unknown tribe of Aborigines building megaliths on this site in æons gone by.

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We’re on our way back down now, about 600 yards from the summit but still pretty much on the top.  Beyond the sea of rocks and the eucalypts is the River Derwent again.

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These last three images are on the other side of the road and looking in the opposite direction.

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As well as on the post, feel free to comment on the new appearance and whether you experience any problems with it.

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Some of the readers of this Blog have their own WordPress site.  They at least may be interested in a short account of what just changed.  Otherwise, just pass it by.

Before the previous post I was using the Quintus theme with two columns, post on the left and Recent Posts and Subscribe on the right.  I had a request for larger images in the Blog pages.  For that I decided to go to a single column in a theme that could display 1024px images (instead of 640px) and have Recent Posts and Subscribe at the bottom.  Quintus couldn’t do that so I needed a different theme.

I was experimenting with different themes on my free testing site when I accidentally uploaded the Baskerville 2 theme on the Production site.  Quintus is a retired theme which meant I could keep using it but once I left it, I couldn’t get it back.  So I was stuck with Baskerville 2 at the time of publishing the last post.  That could only go to 800px and showed one to three narrow columns on the main page, which was not what I wanted.

I now use the Hemingway Revisited theme, as you see in this post.  There are 1024px images on the page and Recent Posts, Top Posts and Subscribe at the bottom.  It also shows Related Posts.  I’m approaching 20,000 images in this Blog and the space required to store these images meant I have had to upgrade to a Premium and then a Business Plan, which are paid plans.  This has the benefit that I was able to customise the theme with CSS code and get excellent support on how to do that.  I was able to fix a problem with link colour not showing using the editing interface, and with provided CSS code, reduce the height of the header, show the title text in yellow on a transparent background and have headings for the footers.  This is a free theme and if you are on a free plan, the only things you will not be able to do are those requiring CSS code.

I use the Classic Editor rather than the Block Editor.  This allows me to import all the images at one time and then insert comments, rather than having to import images one at a time.  I also (perhaps bizarrely) use a Word macro to customise the code underlying each new post, including for image sizing and spacing.  I was able to adjust this for the new theme, thus speeding up the formatting of each new post.  Hopefully, I won’t have to change this new theme for quite some time.