Looking at the back of Mt Mawson, Mt Field NP, yesterday. Now we're on the boat back to the mainland and I'd rather not be🫤
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Looking at the back of Mt Mawson, Mt Field NP, yesterday. Now we're on the boat back to the mainland and I'd rather not be🫤
Why bother privatising/ selling Aunty, as the LNP have said they'd love to do, when you can have the taxpayer pay for #NewsCorpse riff-raff to do #Merde_och's bidding under the guise of public broadcasting
Sunshine at Pine Lake, Tasmania Athrotaxis cupressoides, Pencil Pine, a fire-sensitive Gondwanan species found above 800m old very slow-growing. The smallest specimen pictured at 1.5m high could be up to 75 years old
In the past, patriots were the people who went somewhere else and died in support of the country, not those who stayed at home and bickered about who they shared it with
Was there ever any doubt?
Dicksonia deviations Dicksonia antarctica Styx River Valley
Magnificent Myrtle
Fruits of the forest
A bit of SW Myrtle forest, Nothofagus cunninghamii interlaced with horizontal scrub, Anodopetalum biglandulosum
Macquarie Plains Derwent River with hop fields and rainbows
"He told me right then when top popped open there was nothing his box wouldn't do. With the oil of Aphrodite and the dust of the Grand Wazoo, you might not believe this little fellah, but it'll cure your asthma too"
Nice backdrop for what was a quiet day. No great adventure instead catching up with my mum's youngest and only remaining cousin in town. One last dash to the wilderness tomorrow on fungi and big tree hunt before heading back to the mainland on Monday night.
Almost like the US is a third-world country sh it hole
Good morning
I'm sure it'll be warmer in the water. 7 and showering atm in Hobart. Hoping to get out to Styx on Sunday
Lay day.. Sorry, we might skip that thanks. Off to the Museum instead 🥶
The magic reflections of the Huon River never cease
No wind and the Myrtle forest was like heaven. Had a squizz at Arve Falls on the way out which put the cherry on the icing
We went and chased some down at Hartz Mountain NP today. Settled for a short trek through the myrtle forest to Lake Osborne. Hartz Peak and Snowy South will have to wait for another day when the weather is more clement. Light snow showers while we walked added to the magic of being there.
Needs to visit Kebab Rehab
Lake Osborne, Hartz Mountain NP So serene ❄️🥹
Nobody thought to call it #RayGunnRover to stamp it with some genuine Australian Kitsch
Looking forward to trying #BeirutBob's Crocodile HSP
I got a dusting of icing sugar on my breakfast today. Good morning
Leaning into it
70 yrs after Asimov conceived the necessity of "laws of robotics" to protect humanity from AI we've allowed a bunch of highly flawed tech billionaires with, as Ben Elton once penned, "the social conscience of a dog caught short on a croquet lawn", to ride roughshod over any ethical concern because?
Richea dracophylla Hakea lissosperma Valley track, Kunanyi earlier today
Such a magnificent specimen of Quercus suber demands to be photographed every time I visit. It's a corker that's been spared the indignity of ever being stripped of its precious skin 200 and not out is a good knock in anyone's book
Out on a limb at Fluted Cape yesterday (nature does it best)
Here's anothery Read-em and weep😭 lads😁😂 (Moves in close for the kill shot)
We three. Survivors of the 1967 fires on Tuesday 7th February which ravaged the mountain. Few trees remained unscathed and almost all have visible scars from fires that left 64 people dead, 900 injured and over seven thousand homeless in Tasmania
Yep, it's the octopus tree. Kunanyi
Let's climb
Something about reaping what you sow
A dusting of snow on Kunanyi this morning as we head off to do some walking in the foothills
I concur Bird. I'm of the opinion that many 'humans' have been given a free kick being classified as sentient while a great many other organisms are unfairly excluded purely based on humanity's poor communication skills.
Stewartia monodelpha?
Sadly, our reputation is no longer worth that much
Fern encrusted slate steps with Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle at Aberclwyd Manor NGS
Lately, the newsreader. It's quite an insane laugh though🫣
Exocarpos cupressiformis, family Santalaceae Cherry Ballart, Native Cherry, related to Sandalwood, Bitter Quandong and Mistletoe, all semi-parasitic plants
Clearly not a rolling stone
Twin Dicksonia
Tasman Peninsula from Fluted Cape
Out there with the locals #FlutedCape
Start by burning that old orange fossil
What's up indeed
Fluted Cape, lunawanna-allonah South Bruny Island. Not so daunting from Truganini Lookout... today's project
Somebody should ask the stooge about Niobium. Nobody could know more about Niobium Covefe
Arbutus!
We only require relatively small amounts of replacement protein and the excess protein is used as a poor energy source stressing livers & kidneys. It's just more consumerist bs and a shortcut to kidney stones, gout and arthritis. As usual, it's the environment suffering the most from protein greed
Stems do the work. Like the phyllodes that serve as leaves on many Acacia sp., Casuarinaceae sp. rarely exhibit true leaves. When they do, they are a round, short-lived & vestigial appendage no more than 2mm. I have photographed such leaves on seedling Casuarina cunninghamiana once in 40 years
This was never about courageous self-expression. This, like paisley body shirts, was part of a deeper conspiracy to create a necessity for male deodorant products by popularising bacterial-harbouring BO-infused synthetic fabrics culminating in clinging Lycra & the omnipresent sweat bands of the 80s
One of the 'White Knights' of Fingal that should have been left well alone #thicktrunktuesday #PostEveOfDestruction
Like the door 'frame' concept
Noice
Porepunkah has a long history (20 yrs or more)with past reports by 4 corners on a 'religious' cult called "the family" with authorities having removed children in the past for their own safety. Sad that extremism has ruined yet more lives
The colony needs shoes... please forward shoemakers asap
The two convicts responsible for this superb stone masonry were granted their freedom after the bridge's completion. All well and good except they most likely were originally convicted and transported here on a bum rap
Jonathon, is that you?
Geelong is melting #MeltingMoments
To borrow ( & bastardise )The Devinyls "It's a fine lime between pleasure and pain"
Wyndham Park by the Werribee River
Had a whole mess of harlequin bugs overwinter in a big bale of barley straw this winter. Best left alone if one has a sensitive nose
Boldly bifurcated Bunya Bunya, Chirnside Park, Werribee
Al Grasby was the godfather of Riverina haute couture in the 70s. He may well have indulged in brief onesies at home but his public flamboyance generally reflected a more sunsmart approach, sombreros and extremely wide ties and lapels
Peak Chaenomeles
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" Voltaire 😓
Have found myself in a bit of a hole in recent months. Not actually this shaft, dug in the 1890s, but it feels that long. At last, a holiday, a trip back home to Tasmania. Only one week. Having been transported to the penal colony of NSW at the age of 3 it has become almost a lifetime sentence
That time again Prunus mume pendula
Cheers 3M. Rhubarb leaves are rich in oxalic acid. 🤔 Are we starting to see more definitive preventative treatments other than torching entire colonies?
Are they rhubarb leaves over formic acid wafers?
Lichen playing roshambo with a quartz reef
Morning shadows of Eucalyptus polyanthemos on Bell Rock
I climbed that fire tower tree over in WA back in '82 72m high
Mine are bare atm but clad with seed pods that ensure constant visits from Crimson Rosellas. Food is scarce this year. They've even developed a taste for olives
That and plastic. Come to think of it, they're pretty much one and the same #ToxicWaste
Forever to remain a mystery🤔 Seems like a good time to quote Peter Green's wonderful Fleetwood Mac song, "Oh Well" "I can't help about the shape I'm in I can't sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin But don't ask me what I think of you I might not give the answer that you want me to Oh well"🌲😉
They're paid. They're paid to eat the cats. They're paid to eat the dogs. They're paid to eat the people's pets. They're all doing it. Apparently
RUNIT? Shouldn't that be RUINIT? This game seems to be best suited to reincarnated Elk, Goats & Sheep
"Battle to find a soul in the LNP" Fixed it
350+ year old Japanese chestnut 相馬神社のシバグリ #thicktrunktuesday
The brain worm won. RFK has long since ceased being the host and is now the vector
The fluffiness of being
Sure, it's Bendigo, so there's bound to be a pt of gold
And remind him that he'll never be an all-day sucker
Just peachy😁
Sock capers
Not to mention the grave injustices he committed against curries
Noice
Winners are grinners
Hey Siri, what does “conflict of interest” mean? reneweconomy.com.au/oil-and-gas-...
"There were once two cats of Kilkenny, Each thought there was one cat too many; So they fought and they fit, And they scratched and they bit, Till, excepting their nails, And the tips of their tails, Instead of two cats, there weren’t any." True story
Pinpricks in the curtain
