A night time camera trap image, showing part of a wooden building to the side, with an endangered Eastern Quoll to the front of the image. The quoll is looking at the camera, and has a dark fur with multiple white spots, with an all black tail.
A wide view of the sprawling red brick ruins of the Port Arthur Penitentiary. The weathered walls feature barred windows and structural ironwork. In the background, a small yellow cottage sits on a green hill next to a dark purple ornamental tree. The image uses a shallow depth of field effect.
This color postcard shows expansive lavender fields in Nabowla, Tasmania. The foreground is filled with dense rows of lavender plants in full bloom, forming a broad carpet of purple flowers. A reddish-brown dirt track runs along the very bottom edge of the image. In the midground, the lavender fields continue in long, orderly rows that follow the gentle contours of the land, with subtle variations in purple and green indicating different plantings or stages of growth. A single large green tree stands slightly left of center, breaking the uniformity of the fields. In the background, a line of darker green forest separates the farmland from low, blue-gray hills or mountains under a pale blue sky. The overall impression is of a rural agricultural landscape focused on lavender cultivation, with strong horizontal lines and vivid color.
A rock is mostly covered with various lichens and mosses. The colour range is amazing. There are white, black, red, green, and orange plants spread over the rock.
We are selling our wonderful home and will wander #Tasmania in our camper trailer while we keep an eye out for our new home.
A view of the Huon River from our balcony, looking through the trees to the river (2km wide here) with beautiful blue sky, and distant hills in the background.
A field full of white poppies. The flowers have white petals and a pinkish purple centre. Stems and leaves are dark green, but the overwhelming colour is white. The photo has no sky
Southern Australia states may be in for a significant aurora sighting over the next few nights. #Lutruwita especially, but Victoria and South Australia too. #Tasmania
I guess this also applies to Canadians and Europeans of higher latitudes.
Going to work on a watercolour today, I started this yesterday at Oatlands at a watercolour workshop. It’s a section of the main street. The majority of the buildingsin Oatlands are like this. A gorgeous town ❤️ I took a whole lot of reference photos and I am thinking of putting in some people. The sky was a challenge 🤨 #Tasmania#oatlands#watercolour#art
A double page spread of four old buildings. The sky is prominent. Two houses are inked but not yet painted. The other two are still pencilled.
Our last sunrise in Tasmania was something special. At first, the sky was cloudless, but just as I began to growl, a dark cloud cover quickly rolled in. It started to rain, but a small part of the sky remained clear where the sun was rising.
I got tired and restless about the #endOf10 BS that Microsoft is forcing on people and the environment. So I contacted a local Repair Café to see if I could help give a second life to old-ish but functional computers.
I'll be at the Repair Café, next Sunday 5 October, 14:00--16:00, at the Kingston Neighbourhood House 24 Hawthorn Drive, Kingston, Tasmania
I may have gotten over-enthusiastic preparing my gear 😅. Let's say I come prepared.
Edit: it's the first time I'm doing this. I'll welcome any advice on what to expect, from more experienced folk!
Pencil pines (Athrotaxis cupressoides) are endemic to Tasmania. Individual trees are known to live to 1200 years of age, but many stands like this can also be genetically identical, meaning it could be considered as just one tree, lasting over thousands of years! #tasmania#alpine#landscape#photography
A stand of pencil pines surround a small alpine tarn in a snow-filled alpine landscape
A light brown mushroom in the shape of a flower. The central sphere is slightly darker with a dark brown nub in its centre. Spreading around are almost white arms which resemble petals
THE WILD…
I took this photo near Beatties Tarm, following the Mt Field East Track in Tasmania’s Mt Field National Park. Despite the wind howling across the alpine tops, it was sheltered in the forest.
This challenging alpine circuit (Grade: 4-for experienced bushwalkers) includes forest, moorland and the summit. Reaching 1261m, it takes around 4-5 hours to walk 10.5km for a total ascent of 566m. Boulder scrambling near the top leads to sweeping views of the Derwent Valley and Rodway Range on a clear day.
Let's hope that the BOM (Bureau of Meteorology) is correct that winter rainfall in southern Australia will be good this year. We desperately need good sustained rain after the last difficult 18 months #SouthAustralia#Victoria#Adelaide#Melbourne#GardeningAU (Has #Tasmania been short of rain too?)
I am trying to find some definitive information about a Federal(?) government “Community Public Access Network (CPAN)”, which I believe existed between at least 1995-1997.
I have solid memories of this as a teenager visiting a local Government building to access the internet (which was mainly gopher at the time) and obtaining an email address which was @cpan.???.gov.au with Eudora on a floppy disk. The service I think shut down around 1997 and people were told to go and sign up with new email provider Hotmail.
I have not been able to find any references to this early internet service and would love to try and get some information about it.
Special Shoutout
@NewtonMark any chance you have any knowledge on this, or have a contact who would? (I am too scared to cold-message Geoff Huston :))
A moody early morning scene showing a dusting of snow at Dove Lake in Tasmania. On the right is a boat shed reflected in the still waters with snow on its roof. On the left is lake and the mountain itself, partially obscured by the low snow clouds.
My photography is mostly #nature and #landscape images. I sell my images as prints and for licensed use. This past year, much of my images have been taken in #Tasmania.
Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan who won the Booker Prize for his magnificent novel The Narrow Road To The Deep North, has won the Baille Gifford prize for non fiction.
Flanagan turned down the cash prize because of the the sponsors connections to fossil fuels.
Bar Tailed Godwit called "234684" by humans is one of the worlds most notrious private binge flyers. At 5 months old, they racked up a non-stop 11 days straight binge private flight from #Alaska to #Tasmania recording 13,560km worth of frequent flier points.
A bird weighing about 500 grams that can neither swim nor glide, relying on constant beating of their wings to stay aloft, can fly almost twice as far as the original jumbo jet, and consumes a few hundred grams of fat to do so.
They also have specially adapted eyes that literally allow them to see the magnetic field of the Earth to guide them, as well as using celestial navigation by the stars at night.
Map showing the flight of Bar Tailed Godwit 234684 from Alaska over the Pacific to Tasmania, with a picture of the species. Didn't even stop in Waikiki to spend some money at a resort. Do they even care about the economy?