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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

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

Larena Woodmore

It's spotted-tailed quoll breeding season. At this time of the year, the females get chonky necks and develop a pouch.

They only live for about three years, so it's good to see from recent trailcam pics that there are more babies on the way.

#Quoll #Tasmania #Australia #Wildlife #Nature #BreedingSeason #Marsupials #Mammals

Photo of two young quolls playing outside a burrow covered in green grass and moss. The quolls are a rich, dark reddish brown with white spots over the body and tail.

The one in the foreground is side-on, has one arm in the burrow, is slightly crouched and has its extremely long tail held out and up. Its body is sleek and streamlined.

Its sibling is on top of the grassy mound and looking down at the first one.

Night vision (black and white) photo of another female quoll. This one's neck is even chonkier and she has bulges under her belly. This might mean that she's already carrying babies in her pouch.

Photo of a female quoll that's ready to breed. Her pose is similar to the foreground one in the previous photo, but she has a very thick neck and chin.

Larena Woodmore

Another photo of the platypus. This one shows the layer of air between its fur/skin and the water, keeping it warm, dry and bouyant.

#Platypus #Tasmania #Monotremes #Mammals #Australia #Nature #Waterways

Closeup photo of a platypus floating on the surface of the water, showing from the neck to the end of its beak.

It has a silvery sheen, due to water sitting on top of a layer of air that is trapped by its fur. It make is look like the platypus is covered by a sheet of slumped glass.

The full version of the previous photo with the entire platypus visible. It is diagonal with the beak at the bottom left and tail at the top right.

The water is rippled due to the motion of its feet.

ibk

Everyone else is doing it, so why don’t I.
#aurora #hobart #tasmania #unedited

Red, green and purple aurora over the lights of South Hobart and Mt Nelson

chestas@aus.social

We were doing a bit of gardening out the front of our house when we heard and saw some Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos in trees across the road. My wife went to check them out and took this photo of one flying away, with our house behind.

#tasmania #lutruwita #birds #animals #nature

Black Cockatoo with a distinctive yellow patch behind it's eye is in flight with it's wings stretched up. The fingers at the end of it's large black wings can be seen slightly spread. Directly behind is my house, sky blue panels around a white door with a tree filled hill behind it.

chestas@aus.social

Morning river fog

#tasmania #lutruwita #river #fog #clouds #nature #weather

Under blue skies with scattered white clouds sits a covering of fog. Some trees can be seen silhouetted in the foreground, while the peaks of hills are just rising above the fog layer

SeaFury 🦜 🌧️

Hobart is so beautiful. A photo by a friend from the peak kunyani #hobart #kunyani #tasmania #SilentSunday

Sunset of pinks and purples. Looking out over water and land and sky.

SeaFury 🦜 🌧️

A newly finished (today!) mural in Launceston on the Paterson St East carpark. It depicts the extinct striped Thylacine blending in with the environment, entangled with the endangered spotted quoll. #Mural #lutrawita #launceston #Tasmania

The mural is vertical and about 20 metres high. It’s mostly green (the stipey thylacine is green like the vegetation). The brown quoll has spots.

SeaFury 🦜 🌧️

As promised. Photos of cute furry beings. A baby Wombat, Tasmanian Devils and Kangaroos #fauna #straya #tasmania #marsupial

A young chubby wombat snuggled up in an orange and blue fluffy bag that approximates a pouch. His eyes are closed and he has big feet.

A young Tasmanian devil on the ground. About up. She is about cat size. Stout. Short legs. Black with the characteristic white chest stripe. Her snout is dog like.

The same Tasmanian devil posing I. The morning sun next to a sword grass bush. The bush has long stalks, some laying horizontal.

A mother and offspring Forester Kangaroo. They are grey about the size of a medium dog. Big ears. Sensitive faces. very small thin arms and oversized powerful hind legs and long tail.