Dark MOFO

I’m in Tasmania again, and now lying in bed after a beautiful day of walking with Kelvin and Amy, then going to Dark MOFO with Amy. Dark MOFO is a celebration of midwinter and is very much about celebrating the night, fire and light. I didn’t get tickets for any events, however was very content to go to the Feast, a celebration of food with stalls serving lovely Tasmanian produce to eat around the fires scattered around the area, then Dark Park for a spectacular display of lights and fire and a gorgeous huge platypus.

The light shining up into the sky, a giant paper mache platypus into whom you put your fears and who is burned at the end of the festival in a bonfire to release your fears, and a circle of flame symbolising the early settlers scorching the ground on which the Indigenous Tasmanians lived.

And some photographs of the area I stay in, Snug and Kettering. In 24 hours it’s rained, the sun has shone, there’s been rainbows, with multiple changes every hour. Definitely Tasmania.