Hobart Salamanca Market (9/13/2025)

Saturday, September 13, 2025

We had breakfast at the Custom House
Hotel's Derwent Restaurant, with one main
and beverage included; a long black coffee and
powdery hot chocolate with a side marshmallow

Bacon and egg wrap with tomato relish

Two fried eggs on sourdough toast with bacon;
the bacon is more like what we call Canadian bacon

Being Saturday, we went to the Salamanca Market (est 1972) selling locally made products.

Flowers

Woodwork

Australian animals

General scene (KSS)

Jewellery and knives

Tasmanian Truffles, Tasmania is known for
Tuber Melanosporum/Black Truffles (KSS)

Leather products

Tiny little dolls

Note the Little Golden Books

Makers of Scallop Sticks

Scallop Sticks (KSS)

Handkerchiefs

On the left is jewellery made from coins

Oh, a stretcher is being pulled out of an ambulance;
apparently a security volunteer had fainted (KSS)

Jams, chutneys, and sauces (KSS)

Organic beauty products

UGG sheepskin products

Vinyl LP records (KSS)

Artwork (KSS)

Tasmanian Devil bibs and dog kerchiefs

Books

Lavender products

Honeybee frame and honey

Australian wildlife apron

Crocoite, Tasmania's official state mineral

Soaps

Author Jamie Maslin on right is signing his book,
The Long Hitch Home (2015), which was from
Tasmania to London: so did he hitch back to Tasmania?

The Tassie-Tucker (food) proprietor had learned to
make biltong (air-dried cured meat stick) in South Africa,
which we purchased and had sliced

Tassie-Tucker really specialised in beef jerky

Ties and bows made from wood

Serving and shucking oysters

Scarves

Food truck for Jasus edwardsii/Southern Rock Lobster rolls

Ceramic wares

So many croissant flavors!

Dagwood Dog is a hot dog dipped in a cornmeal batter; these have
not yet been deep fried and topped with tomato sauce or mustard

Tomato relish, jams, and Whiskey Marmalade

Produce

Golden and regular beetroot

The RSPCA/Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals was at the Market (KSS)

Next: Tasman Peninsula I.