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Former fire station crucial to Men's Shed faces government sell-off
A volunteer group is desperate to keep its headquarters at the decommissioned Karoola fire…
ABC News · Tasmania
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Damn, it's 22C in Devonport, Tasmania! And I'm still wearing a thick jumper because it was about 5C when I left the house this morning
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Damn, it's 22C in Devonport, Tasmania! And I'm still wearing a thick jumper because it was about 5C when I left the house this morning
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Damn, it's 22C in Devonport, Tasmania! And I'm still wearing a thick jumper because it was about 5C when I left the house this morning
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Damn, it's 22C in Devonport, Tasmania! And I'm still wearing a thick jumper because it was about 5C when I left the house this morning
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Damn, it's 22C in Devonport, Tasmania! And I'm still wearing a thick jumper because it was about 5C when I left the house this morning
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subject to the cloud act...?
seems likely
'Unnamed companies are looking at setting up six data centres in Tasmania, a document tabled by the state government in parliament reveals'
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Grant Andrew Crawford sentenced to nine years’ jail for 2023 death, grievous bodily harm of motorcyclists
A Tasmanian man whose dangerous driving left one man dead and another badly injured has been handed a…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #crash #death #grantandrewcrawford #Malaysian #motorcycle #RetnakumarKuppusami #stolencar #SureshRajakumar #tas #tasmania #Yolla
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If you’re in #Hobart, come to #HotAugustJazz in North Hobart - so many free performances today and the weather is perfect.
With @Kitteh and Mr 11yo at the moment in Angelika Bat and it’s fantastic 🎶
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ETERNAL LIFE IS KIND 💎
This morning I woke up surprisingly peaceful. My breath was free. My mind was free. My heart was free. There was #clutter around the edges, but none of it seemed able to get at me.
Then someone from a Star Trek group on Mastodon sent me a message that felt like a threat. So I unfollowed the #group and blocked him. No argument. No defence.
I DON’T DO THREATS ANYMORE.
Then the morning wandered somewhere completely different.
I looked out at Lenah Valley. Sunny, about 11 or 12 degrees, the #mountain right behind us. I imagined #Hobart seventy years from now. The mountain will probably still be there, but the city may be almost unrecognisable. An AI city, perhaps. Not because AI suddenly arrives with trumpets. It is already changing things quietly underneath everything.
Then #Nepal came into the morning. That enormous wall of water, rock and ice coming down the mountain. And again, I thought about death. Everybody dies somehow, somewhere, sometime. That sounds cold until the fear drops out of it. Then it is simply true.
From there, for reasons only mornings understand, I thought about #DollyParton and #TimCurry. I saw Tim in the original #RockyHorror Show in London. I never saw Dolly live. But I loved her kindness.
And that took me to a nurse who cared for me as a little boy. I can still see her starched white uniform and the #watch pinned upside down on her chest so she could look down and read it.
She gave me kindness when I needed it, about sixty-five years ago. She is probably long dead.
But the kindness isn’t.
IT IS STILL HERE.
It travelled into relationships, things I have written and things I have said. Perhaps into people I will never know. #Kindness does not necessarily die with the person who gave it. It gets passed along.
Later, LindaCu boosted something I had written about breathwork. I used to struggle terribly with patience and #acceptance. Then I found breathwork and stopped battling myself quite so much. I learned to breathe my way out of the #monkey mind and back into something quieter.
By then, I realised I had spent the morning moving through peace, irritation, Hobart, AI, Nepal, death, Tim Curry, Dolly Parton, an old nurse, breathwork and Mastodon.
Quite a morning.
And none of it needed fixing.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works
#Peace #Kindness #Breathwork #Acceptance #Stillness #Hobart #Tasmania #AI #Death #Mortality #Mastodon #Fediverse #StarTrek #RockyHorror #DollyParton #TimCurry #Nepal #Humanity #Memory #Life
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Random bits of Architecture from around #Hobart I'm down for the Winter Games Fest, but I'll take an extra day for some walking.
Plenty of #boardGames coming soon.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦭🚧 Neil, a 1,000 kg southern elephant #seal in #Tasmania, crushes traffic cones and barriers each year during molting season, rubbing against them to shed his coat.
Wildlife experts from Tasmania’s Department of #NaturalResources and #Environment say it’s not mischief but instinct. As Neil matures, officials warn he may become more territorial, urging fans to keep 20 m away.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/neil-the-seal-blows-up-in-size-and-popularity
#elephantseal #marine #mammals #animals #behavior #hobart #wildlife #science #australia
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Farenheit Ammonite on Stage in Tasmania
Fanny Hanusin, Scout MacDonald, Anna Barber and Matt Langham as the Ammonite
Photo: Darren GillLook what I discovered today:
Acclaimed company Here Theatre has returned with an ensemble of Tasmanian and Victorian theatre makers to develop Fahrenheit Ammonite, a world bending new play by Kit Lazaroo, directed by Dr Jane Woollard. Critics have long admired Lazaroo’s work, calling it “first rate, sometimes clever, sometimes truly inspired”, and “an exemplary demonstration of how theatre can be political and contemporary without being didactic or simplistic” […] The play draws inspiration from Fahrenheit 451, Richard Adams’s Watership Down, and Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite. Lazaroo began the script as a retelling of Bradbury’s novel from Mildred’s perspective, imagining how she might resist the limitations imposed upon her by her creator, and what text she might choose as her own reason to survive. Into Mildred’s journey Lazaroo has woven Clover the Rabbit, and later the endangered Goth from the Planet Jeep, creating a tapestry of voices that challenge, subvert, and expand the canon. — University of Tasmania
So, huh. Not sure what to make of that. Except…cool? Even cooler if they sent me a video. (Just saying, Utas, and Here Theatre.)
The world is a strange place…
#ammonite #fahrenheit451 #kitLazaroo #play #tasmania #theatre #universityOfTasmania #utas #watershipDown -
I never knew about Dog Vomit Slime Molds until my wife told me on our walk on Sunday. These slime molds can be white or yellow and are also known as witches butter (though I always thought there was a jelly fungus called that).
Apparently, in Scandinavian folklore, it is known as the vomit of Troll Cats 😱😱
They aren't dangerous though they can trigger allergies like rhinitis.
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Breathing ancient #oxygen at #MONA, where they liberate it from banded iron formations in their 'Breathe' installation.
A taste of the gas from back when it was corroding a new world into existence
https://darkmofo.net.au/program/breathe
#SciArt #GreatOxidationEvent #deeptime #geology #DarkMofo #Tasmania
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Scorci dagli atipici grovigli di foreste in miniatura nate per l’effetto del violento clima tasmaniano
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=44350#ambiente #ecologia #tasmania #oceania #dalmondo #piante #vegetazione #boschi #foreste #brughiera #alture #altopiani #clima #meteorologia #vento #isole #fotografia #video #viral #Instagram #internet #botanica #specie #varietà #tassonomia #paesaggio
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Looking for a snap with a #new theme I came up with this new #fern from #Tasmania in 2023 - probably a lot of #Fibonacci going on here.
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ blue petrel ✧
The blue petrel (Halobaena caerulea) is a small seabird in the family Procellariidae, the only member of its genus. It is distributed across the Southern Ocean but breeds at only six known sites, all close to the Antarctic Convergence zone. Its plumage is predominantly blue-grey, with an "M" banding across its top, ...
#SouthernOcean #AntarcticConvergence #TasmanPeninsula #Australia #Tasmania #Wikipedia
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Simple beauty and quiet faith. The charm of a historic country church.
Stanley, Tasmania, Australia.
Photo and edit by Kev.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.
(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #StanleyTasmania #HistoricChurch #BlackAndWhite #TasmaniaHistory #church
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Simple beauty and quiet faith. The charm of a historic country church.
Stanley, Tasmania, Australia.
Photo and edit by Kev.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.
(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #StanleyTasmania #HistoricChurch #BlackAndWhite #TasmaniaHistory #church
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Simple beauty and quiet faith. The charm of a historic country church.
Stanley, Tasmania, Australia.
Photo and edit by Kev.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.
(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #StanleyTasmania #HistoricChurch #BlackAndWhite #TasmaniaHistory #church
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Simple beauty and quiet faith. The charm of a historic country church.
Stanley, Tasmania, Australia.
Photo and edit by Kev.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.
(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #StanleyTasmania #HistoricChurch #BlackAndWhite #TasmaniaHistory #church
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Simple beauty and quiet faith. The charm of a historic country church.
Stanley, Tasmania, Australia.
Photo and edit by Kev.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.
(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #StanleyTasmania #HistoricChurch #BlackAndWhite #TasmaniaHistory #church
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Stormy Skies and Architectural Grace.
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Photographed and edited by Kev.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.
(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #Launceston #ArchitecturePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Turret #Finial #MoodySky
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Reaching for the heavens: A historic spire pierces the Launceston sky.
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Photographed and edited by Kev.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪..
(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #Launceston #ChurchSpire #ArchitecturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #DramaticSky #HistoricChurch #TasmaniaArchitecture #BnW
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Reaching for the heavens: A historic spire pierces the Launceston sky.
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Photographed and edited by Kev.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪..
(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #Launceston #ChurchSpire #ArchitecturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #DramaticSky #HistoricChurch #TasmaniaArchitecture #BnW
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Reaching for the heavens: A historic spire pierces the Launceston sky.
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Photographed and edited by Kev.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪..
(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #Launceston #ChurchSpire #ArchitecturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #DramaticSky #HistoricChurch #TasmaniaArchitecture #BnW
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A haunting grandeur: the past preserved at Port Arthur.
Port Arthur, Tasmania. Australia.
Photographed and edited by Kev.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.
(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #PortArthur #HistoricSite #Penitentiary #ConvictHistory #AustralianHistory #WorldHeritage #TravelTasmania #HistoricArchitecture
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L’archivio attrezzato per intrappolare il vento sopra l’ultima scogliera della Tasmania
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=42911#strutture #ricerca #scienza #archivi #vento #aria #inquinamento #anidridecarbonica #installazioni #clima #ecologia #ambiente #tasmania #australia #progetti #bombole #promontori #scogliere #oceano #isole
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ALONG THE TRAIL…
It's an annual pilgrimage, the Turning of the Fagus, and it brings people from the cities and into the mountains. That was us as the end of May approached, and with it the end of the autumn of 2025.Join us for a walk to view the fagus, to follow a rough trail to a mountain lake and to a cold weather camp by the waters of the Tyenna River.
READ THE STORY HERE:
https://medium.com/pacificedge/pilgrimage-2ac205276463...
#tasmania #mtfieldnationalpark #bushwalking #hiking #hikingadventures #camping #tyennariver #hobartandbeyond -
La strana vita dell’oca poco acquatica dal becco del colore di una zucchina d’inverno
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=41822
#animali #creature #oche #australia #tasmania #isole #specie #classificazione #conservazione #uccelli #acqua #coste #spiaggia #pennuti #natura #biologia #evoluzione #riproduzione #comportamento #strano
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THE OUTDOOR MUSEUM
A roof of galvanised iron faded by the sun, walls of brick, sash windows and the symmetrical formalism of the Georgian style signify the age of this old house in Battery Point, Hobart.There are many houses like this in Tasmania. This one is in good condition, having been renovated at some time in the not-distant past and maintained in good order.
That is the 1250m of kunanyi-Mt Wellington off in the distance with the 120m high cliffline of the Organ Pipes visible, a wall of vertical dolerite oozed out of the earth somewhere in deep time.
Battery Point is an early Hobart locale on the banks of the Derwent. For those who read stories of a city’s history in its buildings, who discern tales of wealth and decline, industrial change and aspiration in the its architectural styles, Battery Point offers an eclectic collection spanning the late Nineteenth Century through Art Deco to Modernism. Battery Point is a place where you walk, not drive.
#architecture #building #Hobart #Tasmania #BatteryPoint #hobartandbeyond
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Happy Imbolc! 🐑🥛🌼🔥 To celebrate 700+ Kabbidges, here is a one-take cover of Billie Eilish's song "What I Was Made For" in C# major! 🥬 Special thanks to Karaoke All Keys for the backing track, be sure to check them out! 💚
#WhatWasIMadeFor #Song #Music #Singing #BillieEilish #Billie_Eilish #What_Was_I_Made_For #Subscribers #SubscriberMilestone #Subscriber_Milestone #700Subs #700_Subs #700Subscribers #700_Subscribers #Kabbaway #Kabba #Kab #Kabbidge #Kabbidges #Gday_Websurfers #BarbieSoundtrack #Barbie_Soundtrack #BarbieMovie #Barbie_Movie #BarbieMovieSoundtrack #Barbie_Movie_Soundtrack #Barbie2023 #HorseshoeFalls #Horsehoe_Falls #HorseshoeFallsTasmania #Horseshoe_Falls_Tasmania #HorseshoeFallslutruwita #Horseshoe_Falls_lutruwita #lutruwita #Tasmania #Australia #Waterfall #Waterfalls #MountFieldNationalPark #Mount_Field_National_Park #MtFieldNationalPark #Mt_Field_National_Park #YouTube #YouTuber #YT #YTer #Video
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There were a few other cars present, but I didn't get pictures of everything.
If any of you know what these car are, or the ones in my previous post, please feel free to comment.
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Oh, that reminds me. We had the car show in Deloraine a couple of weekends ago. Have some car porn.
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So last night we finally watched the conclusion of Deadloch.
Deadloch is a short murder mystery series set in a small town on the coast of Tasmania.
The town has been the destination for a large number of sea and tree changers, which has lead to a number of stresses with the older families in the area. Not to mention the traditional custodians (yes, they do still exist).
So when a body turns up on a beach there is quite a stir. The region's Police Commissioner does not think the local cop's up to the task, and brings in a detective from interstate to run the case.
The two could not be more different, but their journey through the case is eye opening for both of them. And the growth in the secondary characters is wonderful.
Naturally, the town is buried in secrets that no-one wants to come out, and then more bodies start turning up. And more bodies. And still more.
To round out the setting, we have a very diverse cast of characters - which plays into the seachange town stresses perfectly.
The series is written by a pair of comedy greats in Australian TV, and it has many comedic moments, but at the heart of the show is the police procedural and murder mystery.
It is gritty, profane, rude, rough, and, like several of the characters, has an amazing and huge heart.
10/10 and a strong chilli chocolate with a salted caramel core on the Sid and Nancy scale.
#AustralianTV #Australia #Tasmania #MurderMystery #TVReview #Deadloch #PoliceProcedural #LGBTIQ
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THIS TASMANIA…
In the deep green.The banks of the Coal River in Richmond are clad in a thicket of willow and other trees whose roots hold the riverbank together and whose foliage shelters walkers in summer. We might consider this as one of the numerous ecosystems services that trees provide.
#tasmania #richmondtasmania #rivers #trees #hobartandbeyond #ecosystemservices
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THIS TASMANIA…
Ruins are both forlorn and intriguing. Who inhabited them? When? And why are they now ruins?These questions flowed through my mind as I stood looking at the remnant of the old stone house at Duck Reach, high above Cataract Gorge on the outskirts of Launceston, Tasmania…
#tasmania #launcestontasmania #launceston #duckreach #buildings #ruins #hobartandbeyond
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#Tasmania is struggling to deal with its #industrial #waste, #capitalism still #proving it is not an #ecologically sound #ideology
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HERE ON THE COAST…
Disused boat shed at Dodges Ferry.An adjacent and disused boat shed burned down last year. Boat sheds are found on several local beaches on the shore of the bay. This one is located just past the sandstone headland at the eastern end of Okines Beach.
#photography #tasmania #dodgesferry
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Tasmania Bike Tour - Launceston to Hobart - Notes & Observations
Three friends and I recently flew to Tasmania and embarked on an unsupported, 6 day, 510km ride from the northern city of Launceston, along the east coast, to the state's southern Hobart. We broke the riding up, a little unevenly, across the six days, depending on the accommodation availability. Large stretches of the coast are sparsely populated, so riding between population centres needed to be a factor.
It was a brilliant trip that, with a little tweaking, worked very well and gave us a good look at Tasmania, with some great riding and some fun stops. Below are my notes and observations for my own, future reference and possibly for others planning a similar trip.
Overall, the trip was 7 days:
* Land and set up on day 0
* Then ride days 1-6
* Leave late on day 7I had planned to ride about 590km with 6600m of climbing but, for various reasons, we actually rode 510km and 6100m of elevation.
Accommodation was $2000 between the four of us, sharing rooms and even, on one occasion, beds!
Flights were normal cost and the bikes came in under the 23kg of checked in luggage allowed, so no extra baggage fees.Bikes were packed into bike boxes which can be obtained at the airport (probably) or from local bike shops for free.
Things to consider: (see comments below)
#cycling #BikePacking #tasmania #RideBikesBeHappy #SpecializedBikes #SpecializedRoubaix #BikeTouring
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Of all my trailcam photos and videos, my absolute favourite is this one minute of juvenile quoll siblings playing near my driveway. https://youtu.be/FqDkD5Zq1G4
Highlights: At 0:24 one decides to pull up mouthfuls of moss, and 0:38 they get a bit growly.
#Quolls #Marsupials #Carnivores #Nature #Tasmania #BabyAnimals #Mosstodon #Trailcam
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IN TASMANIA…
So, this is why Tunnel Bay is called that. Because… there really is a tunnel there.We were on our way back from a walk to Shipstern Bluff when in a spur of the moment decision we decided to make the side trip to Tunnel Bay. Would it be worth the effort?
The turnoff is signposted and you come across it as you traverse the flatish plateau densely covered in tea tree (Malaleuca, I think) between the sea and the steep escarpment behind. The national parks service has constructed numerous stone steps to the bay and as you descend you realise that you will have to walk up all of them on the way back.
Tunnel Bay is best described as a crescent-shaped rocky beach of large, water-rounded stones. The parks service has constructed a couple seats there in a small clearing above the beach, a good place to take a break and have a snack.
The sea was calm the day we walked in, however, like Shipstern Bluff, I imagine the bay is subject to big waves coming in with the south swell.
Shipsterns and Tunnel Bay make a good day’s walk for those interested in a little exercise and the rugged coast of the Tasman Peninsula.
So, was the side trip to Tunnel Bay worthwhile? Sure was.
#tasmania #bushwalking #hiking #tasmanpeninsula #tunnelbay #coasts #hobartandbeyond #tassiegram
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SOMEWHERE ALONG THE TRACK…
Day is almost done we stand where the land meets the water here on Frecinet Peninsula. The sun sinks towards the horizon only to be obscured by a cloud bank, something I should say is not all that uncommon hereabouts.That is the Tasmanian east coast over there across the bay, on the horizon. Somewhere over there is the town of Swansea.
It is now almost half way through the last month of summer and the sun is destined to disappear around 8.30pm. It will be light for some time after that, though. Here in Tasmania at 42°S we have a long summer twilight, the longest day giving us 19 hours and 53 minutes from first to last light.
This is how it is here on the east coast of Australia’s southernmost land mass this late afternoon. The sea calm, the wind mild and gentle, the sun sharing its life-giving warmth, the view wide and uplifting of mind and spirit.#tasmania #frecinetpeninsula #colesbay #seascapes #landscapes #sunsets #hobartandbeyond #photography #landscapephotography
