Only in Tasmania in summer!

Taken by dexodexo just a couple of weeks ago:

Enjoy his refreshing set of photos of a journey along Tasmania’s world-famous Overland Track in all its moods.

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This week’s entry comes from shastadaisy. The title comes from a poem by Pablo Neruda:

Like love, like a medal,
I take in,
take in
south, north, violins…
the smell of waves.
I gather up,
endlessly,
painlessly,
I breathe.

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This delightful shot of New Norfolk is only done justice when viewed large.

It comes from the portfolio of Melbourne-based Wibowo Rusli. Check out his Flickr photostream.

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Welcome back to Flickr Friday. We’re reviving our popular feature with this classic shot by Rick Elkins, a New York-based art director who was on assignment in Tasmania for a commercial shoot.

“We filmed at a number of different locations and this photo was taken in a tool shed of a property where we were using to park our vehicles.

“The location was between Queenstown and Lake Burberry. I was wandering around between takes, trying to stay dry from the frequent rain when I discovered the shed.”

See more of his work here.

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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!”

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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.

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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.”

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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!

thisTasmania contributing editor Fred Baker writes:

Australias’ short beaked Echidna — or spiny anteater — feeds on ants and termites, pulling a nest apart with strong clawed forearms, then inserting its long snout and sticky tongue.

Echidnas are found all over Australia and are the only known relative of the Platypus. In cold areas they may hibernate in winter.

A frightened Echidna will dig rapidly down into soft ground, leaving only the tips of its spines visible.

The single young one hatches from an egg and is carried in the mother’s pouch until its spines begin to grow.

After that the mother leaves it in a den and visits every few days to feed it milk. A baby Echidna is called a Puggle.

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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.

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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.”