View over Nipaluna Hobart from the top of Kunanyi Mount Wellington. The text below is copied from informational plaques at the lookout. (I’ve edited it to fit the BlueSjy word limit.) People have been drawn to the mountain for generations. For many locals 'the mountain' defines our sense of self and place. It is our barometer — we look up to check the weather and watch its changing moods. The physical bulk of the mountain protects us from wild westerly storms and its familiar profile welcomes us home after time spent away. The Muwinina people were the first human visitors to kunanyi Mount Wellington. kunanyi The mountain — Mount Wellington milaythina nika milaythina-mana. This is our country. pakana laykara milaythina nika mulaka Aboriginal people ran over this land to hunt pakana-mapalia krakapaka milaythina nika. and many died here. tapilti larapuna, tapilti putalina From Eddystone Point, to Oyster Cove tapilti kunanyi, tapilti tayaritja From Mount Wellington, to the Bass Strait Islands waranta takara milaythina nara takara. We walk where they walked. nara taymi krakapaka waranta-tu waranta tunapri nara. And they will never be dead for us as long milaythina nika waranta pakana, as we remember them. waranta palawa, milaythina nika This country is us — and we are this country.
Overcast here today, too, though with some gentle bleans of sunshine to silver the river and harbor. A few showers visible in the hills about 150 km away to the left (not shown in photo).
#kunanyi Mount Wellington
#Muwinina country
