Bridgewater and Gagebrook

Now here are two places around town that are always in the news for all the wrong reasons. In the latest installments the bus drivers are complaining that they are getting pelted with rocks whilst attempting to drive through Gagebrook. With all this terrible publicity bombarding us, my curiosity got the better of me and we drove up there to take a look for ourselves. Actually I went to deliver a food coupon for a guy who had called in at the church asking for help. Bridgewater and Gagebrook are adjoining suburbs on the northern outskirts of Hobart on the eastern shore of the Derwent river. As we got close to these places we noticed some very upmarket acreage on the banks of the river nearby, and yet both of these suburbs were obviously filled with public housing. It certainly looked to me to be no worse that Lyndale in north Dandenong where I grew up. Generally gardens were well kept and the school looked well cared for.



Of course you can never go anywhere in Hobart without the omnipresent Mount Wellington dominating the landscape.


We came back across the river and stopped for lunch at the Glenorchy Club Hotel. If you want to read about that experience you can check out entry number two on my brand new page, 'Coffee Food and Wine in Hobart'. There is a link in the side bar for you to click on.