Category — Flickr Friday

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’.

This amazing macro of a tiny Tasmanian creature comes from a Flickr contributor who calls himself ‘Nuytsia@Tas‘ and shows the ‘first instar caterpillar of Doratifera oxleyi (Painted Cup Moth). Approximately 3mm long’.

Nuytsia@Tas says in his Flickr profile that he is “an ex-horticulturalist, working conservationist, trained biotechnologist, manic botanist, lapsed ornithologist, hobbying biologist with an an all round interest in natural history’, and when you explore his online portfolios you’ll see why we’ll be inviting him to contribute one to thisTasmania.

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’.

Today’s Flickr Friday comes from Melbourne-based ‘woowoowoo‘ who writes “As we waited for the Spirit of Tasmania to leave the Mersey estuary, the sun set in the most fantastic blaze of colour.”

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’.

This delightful study of a Tasmanian echidna comes from the camera of a Flickr poster with the moniker Sir Francis Canker Jones.

We found it interspersed between shots of his wedding, breaching whales in Sydney Harbour, and sheep in New Zealand!

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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.

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 for new entries tagged with ‘Tasmania’ every week.

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.”

Flickr Friday this week can’t go past this frosty scene on the top of Mt Wellington by somebody who goes by the pseudonym ‘Chronic Fatigue Boy’

Every Friday we will be featuring a favourite photograph gleaned from the thousands that celebrate Tasmania on Flickr.

Our first entry comes from the anonymous ‘davelight‘ of Hobart. He captioned it: ‘a Pademelon in delightful light at Narawntapu National Park’.