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SeaFury 🦜

The Visitors Centre at Cradle Mountain. Tasmania’s highest peak, photos by architect Cumulus Studio. Tassie #architecture is so unique because of our landscape and Cumulus is masterful in its response to it. #tasmania

The building from outside. It is geometic. Reminiscent of Corbusier’s Notre-Dame du Haut. The ominious shape of Cradle mountain looms over it from the distance.

A view of cradle mountain from a row of floor to ceiling windows. The interior is very dark, letting the scene before it dominate. The view has rocks and shrubs in foreground. A lake in the mid and many peaks behind. Some shrouded in fog.

The building hiding in the shrubs from another view. Its slinks into the contours of the landscape. Low to the ground.

The inside of the building with coppery geometric ceiling, it is lit by strip lights washing up from the top of the walls. A person looks up.

ibk

A young and rather blonde echidna snuffling in the bush.

#photo #happySnap #juvenile #blonde #echidna #knocklofty #KnockloftyReserve #hobart #tasmania #spring #summer #sprummer #monotreme #MonotremesOfMastodon

A juvenile echidna, with relatively light fur, looks toward the camera from the bushland floor

ibk

Three Tawny Frogmouths sitting in a tree …

#bird #photography #naturePhotography #happySnap #knocklofty #hobart #tasmania #spring #baby

Three tawny frogmouths on a broken tree branch; two babies and a mother. One baby is facing away from the camera

Anna Anthro

Short-Tail Shearwater: Bird that breeds in #Tasmania found 'a long way from home,' in Canadian #Arctic

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/bird-from-tasmania-found-in-arctic-1.7395119

Larena Woodmore

A lot of people want to talk about echidna beaks (noses) today, so here you go. Echidna snoots!

#Echidna #Nature #Tasmania #TasmanianAnimals #Monotreme #AustralianAnimals #Wildlife

Four closeup photos of echidnas noses.
Top left: Nose held up to in the air, showing damp nostrils on top and a tiny little mouth underneath
Top right: Echidna looking straight at the camera, through a gap between horizontal branches. The nose is centre front and is mostly dry but damp at the end, showing the nostrils and mouth.
Bottom left: Looking to the left, this echidna's nose is clean and slightly wet and is very shiny at the end.
Bottom right: Looking to the right, the wet end of the snout is covered in crumbs of dirt.

Larena Woodmore

Echidnas are everywhere are the moment. This one's visited a few times to clean up the ants around an old retaining wall.

#Tasmania #Echidna #Monotreme #Nature #AustralianMammals

Photo of an echidna standing with hind legs on some weedy brick paving and front legs on a second row of old wooden sleepers. Another wooden board is at the top, and the echidna has poked its nose underneath it looking for ants.

Normally, their legs look very short but in this pose you can see that its arm is quite long, and covered in coarse brown hairs.

Radical Anthropology

New study out in shows human presence in #Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and #Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests

#Australia #FirstNations #archaeology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp6579

Larena Woodmore

The echidnas are very busy at the moment. I saw three yesterday and two today. Some are quite timid and curl up every time the camera's shutter goes off and others don't care at all.

#Echidna #Wildlife #TasmanianForest #Tasmania #Monotreme

Closeup ohoto of an echidna's spines, which are cream-coloured, fading to black at the ends.

When threatened echidnas don't attack but, instead, they quickly roll up and dig their legs into the ground, protected all over by the sharp spines. If you touch the echidna its whole body jerks and it stabs you in the finger. Guess how I know?

Photo of an echidna with its head down, searching for ants, while walking from left to right in front of a pond. Its black-tipped cream spines poke through in coarse brown fur. It has a very small dark eye and long nose that is wet at the end. Long claws protrude from its backward-facing back feet.

Photo of an echidna walking from right to left on grassy paving outside my kitchen. One front leg is up showing long fingernails, although not as long as the back claws shown in the other photo. This ones beak is held up as it isn't looking for food and is on its way somewhere.

chestas@aus.social

Ok, my weekend.

Friday was the most amazing aurora in Tasmania that I could see from my back garden.

#nature #aurora #tasmania #lutruwita #colour

Purple and green aurora colours seen through the branches of a peach tree. Some bright stars are visible against the pink and purple colours

Columns of light tinted with the colours they pierce as an aurora displays from dark purple at the top, down to pink, then light green, darkening as it gets closer to the horizon. Some eucalypts are silhouetted against the colours

chestas@aus.social

Aurora over Northern Tasmania. I went into my back garden thanks to a post by @SeaFury and have been treated to the best lights I've ever seen

#aurora #tasmania #lutruwita

Trees silhouetted in front of an aurora light show. Neon green near the horizon and bright pink above. There are clear columns cutting through the colours

SeaFury 🦜

Heres a bit more info about the storms and their aftermath in Tasmania. My experience was not unusual, some people in our community are still waiting for their power to be restored. The intensity of the storm is a sign of #climateChange #tasmania

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-08/tas-power-outage-grants-announcement/104325724?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

SeaFury 🦜 🌧️

On the way home, the campus is empty. Seating. Entrance. Car park. Tree. #Tasmania #launceston #sunset

A hall with an alcove where there is a bench seat and a table and stool. Wall painted aqua green.

The sunset in a purple and blue sky with a tinge of yellow in the horizon. The architecture school is in the foreground. There is led strip lights along the path to the entrance

There’s a huge puddle in the carpel and it’s mostly empty.

Another view of the car park with another puddle and a bare twigged tree in background. Sunset is glorious! The stadium is to the right and you can see a huge stadium light.

chestas@aus.social

Two years ago we officially moved into our house in Tasmania, leaving Victoria and mainland Australia behind. We'd been in Tasmania a couple of days, but the floor boards were being sanded and varnished so we couldn't really stay in our house.

It was two years ago that our cats arrived and we could really call Tasmania home. It's taken a bit of effort to turn this place from a dump into a home, and to build a livelihood, but we're almost there.

Absolutely no regrets. Great decision moving away from Melbourne for us and downsizing our lives.

#lutruwita #tasmania #anniversary #home #australia #downsizing

SeaFury 🦜 🌧️

Watching Deadloch. If you aren’t Tasmanian you will not get the chickenfeed reference. The red cloth used in the cross death has a chicken in it. The logo for a dead local discount shop. #tasmania

Anna Anthro

#Tasmania MONA curator hangs two Picassos in women’s toilet in response to court ruling that closed a women’s only show.

A man sued when he was barred from seeing the artwork.

Churches, schools, glamping, & toilets can use gendered spaces but no others.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jun/24/mona-picasso-painting-womens-toilets-ladies-lounge-exhibition-ruling