Chinese New Year at Tsing Wah

We went to the Chinese New Year celebration at Tsing Wah Asian Grocers in Launceston today.

 Display in Tsing Wah Asian Grocers 

One of the musicians

With the fire crackers just finished, very loud

The yellow lion 

And the black lion

The Lion Dance 

Handing out Lucky Envelopes

Colourful 

The Lion Dance

Once in a Blue Moon

We had the second full moon for January on Wednesday 31 January 2018.  There was also a lunar eclipse at midnight.  It was pretty and awesome.

The moon rising at 8.20pm

Watching the full moon

Moonlight reflecting off the water

Blurry photo of the total lunar eclipse making the moon shine sunset red.

More Long Weekend Fun

Breakfast at the Harbour Master Cafe

Breakfast at the Harbour Master Cafe 

The Spirit of Tasmania sailed past on it's way to Melbourne 

The Spirit of Tasmania going to Melbourne.

Then we went to Penguin.

View from Braddon's Lookout on the way to Penguin. 

View from the Lookout.  The countryside is really dry, but you can see the green fields that have irrigation.

Field waiting to be baled.

Penguin

Sign post at Penguin

Beach at Penguin

Uniting Church in Penguin

Old Coastal Road on the way back to Devonport

Goat Island and Nature Reserve on the way back to Devonport.

Australia Day Long Weekend

We had a little Australia Day holiday long weekend to Devonport.

First we stopped at Latrobe to watch the festivities at Bells Parade.

We watched the wood chopping

Stephen Foster wood chopping on the right.  Stephen had a 30 second handicap and still came first.

We watched the ferret racing

They were fun to watch, they run along the frame and out the pipes (see below)

First one out is the winner

We watched the weight lifting

These are just a few of the cars on display

We watched the kite flying

They had the kite shop, so

I bought the Goldfish kite :-)

We watched the gumboot throwing

We watched kid have fun on the Taz-Zorb 

We had a look at the model boat display

and watched the model boats on the Mersey River

It was a nice hot sunny day but there was plenty of shady trees to keep us cool.