Posts from — July 2007

Following yesterday’s giant squid find on a Tasmanian beach, how could we go past ’substitute anchor’ posted by James975 in his Tasmania collection.

The caption reads: An Octopus holding onto our anchor in Coles Bay, East Coast, Tasmania.

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Belinda Bauer, of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, packs up the giant squid found on a Tasmanian beach.

A giant squid washed up on Tasmania’s west coast has scientists in a frenzy.

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery senior curator of invertebrate zoology, Genefor Walker-Smith, leads a team of scientific experts who will investigate the find at Ocean Beach, near Strahan.

Curiously, of the four known giant squid to have washed up on Tasmanian shores (1986, 1992, 2002 and 2007), all have been found in the month of July.

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Bestselling Tasmanian author Rachael Treasure shares a quiet moment with her Waler stallion Akbar as they peruse her recently-released novel — The Rouseabout.

Rachael also writes a very popular web blog — Treasure’s Tales — where, in her own laconic voice, she documents the ups and downs of country life … its about life on a farm, not a country weekender …

Rachael has joined our team at thisTasmania and will contribute a regular Letter from the country.

Here’s her first Letter … an ode, sort of, to the humble swede which freckles Tasmanian paddocks during winter.

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The Mussel Boys

Tasman Peninsula

Nubeena Mussels in a Dill Curry Coconut Broth with Asian Greens and Glass Noodles

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Launceston-based photographer Peter Daalder consistently travels around Tasmania in search of images that capture the essence of the State.

He has a finely-tuned eye for detail, visual contradictions, and the impacts on an island going through enormous change.

For his first thisTasmania portfolio we have selected images that show the diversity of Tasmania’s rural landscapes.

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A CSIRO study of the waters off the south-east coast of Australia, including Tasmania, reveals that they are warming up faster than anywhere else in the southern hemisphere … and could devastate local fisheries.

Tasmania’s Premier Paul Lennon is under fire for appearing in a television commercial promoting a proposed $2 billion pulp mill in northern Tasmania — before it has even been approved.

Visit Sheila Smart’s portfolio.

My husband and I have lived in Australia since 1974 but it was not until 2004 that we decided to visit the only State we had yet to see — Tasmania.

It was long overdue and was very much an eye-opener for both of us. We were immediately struck by the beauty of the countryside and the friendliness of the wonderful people. Coming from frenetic Sydney, it was a joy to relax and let Tassie take over.

Photography being my great passion, I was not disappointed. From the wilderness of the Gordon River and Cradle Mountain, albeit in constant drizzle, to the white sands of eastern Tasmania, specifically Swansea, we were besotted by the landscape and plan to return in, hopefully, the not too distant future. — Sheila Smart

A convert to the world of digital photography, Sheila Smart is a Sydney-based freelance photographer, living with her husband and two cats in the northern beaches suburb of Avalon Beach.

Her varied portfolio includes candids of Sydney folk, black and white images, including infrared, aboriginality of urban Sydney and also urban wildlife. Enjoy more of her work here.

A huge dump of snow on Ben Lomond has given skiers hope of hitting the slopes this season. After a terrible ski season last year and an average one before that, the winter blast came as a welcome surprise to northeast residents.

Flickr Friday continues with this very Tasmanian image from Perambulator. The caption reads: “Zen, Tasmania-style. When sheep must cross the road, all others can but sit and contemplate.”