Posts from — August 2007

Stilllwater

Launceston

Warm Preserved Quince with King Island Admiralty Blue, Raisin Toast and Quince Jelly

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Tonight, Tasmanians will be able to view a total lunar eclipse.

Shevill Mathers from Southern Cross Observatory, Cambridge, together with Discovery Science Channel TV, is filming the total lunar eclipse that will be happening tonight, August 28, 2007.

It will be visible in its entirety for all of Eastern Australia and New Zealand.

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Tasmanian artist Belinda Kurczok has won the People’s Choice Award in Adelaide’s 2007 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize for her lifelike gouache painting of two white-bellied sea eagles.

Named after Frederick George Waterhouse, the South Australian Museum’s first curator, the Waterhouse Art Prize is Australia’s richest prize for natural history art.

Kurczok, 28, received her $5000 prize and a ticket to Malaysia at a presentation ceremony at the museum last night.

The top prize was won by Victorian artist Heather Marsh.

Peppermint Bay

Woodbridge

Braised Organic Shin of Black Angus Beef ‘en Daube’

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Da Angelos

Battery Point

Gnocchi Portofino

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Found: A Tasmanian Tourist Bureau video advertisement from the 1980s … we wonder if they paid a commission to The Sound of Music?

Wild weather and huge downpours continue to flood three major valleys in Tasmania, triggering car crashes, fires and a dangerous landslide.

The number of roads underwater continue to climb as emergency crews work around the clock to save homes from flooding.

Tasmania Police media spokesman Sgt Pat Lee said the floodwaters had threatened the Derwent Valley, where seven key roads, including the Lyell Highway, had been severely hit.

While townships are yet to report significant water damage to homes, Sgt Lee said emergency crews were setting up shelters for residents.

More:

Police say a major rockfall on the Murchison Highway in Tasmania’s north-west could take up to three days to clear. Thousands of tonnes of rubble have fallen onto the highway, two kilometres south of Rosebery.

Sammy the seal has become a star turn at Hobart’s fish punts, and was captured here by Flickr contributor ‘j’adore la nature‘.

She writes: “I am fully into natural history. I love taking photo’s of just about anything that is natural (oh, and boats). I love detail and crave for more and more of it … I want to get closer!”

Editor’s note: If you would like to be featured here, simply upload your photographs to Flickr [signing up is free] and we’ll find them. We check regularly for new entries tagged with ‘Tasmania’ or, better still, ‘thisTasmania’.

Home Hill

Ranelagh

Huon Valley Venison with Pepperberry Jus

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A fine female rainbow trout weighing more than 6kg was released in Bradys Lake a week ago.

She’s shown above with Inland Fisheries Officer Brett Mawbey shortly before release.

Tasmanian anglers have a chance to catch her with the opening of the trout fishing season this weekend, and if they do there’s a bonus — she’s been tagged and is worth $1000.

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