Flickr Friday: “Like love, like a medal”
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,...
View ArticleSecrets from the depths
A bright red, undescribed species of shell-less coral, called an anthomastid or gorgons-head coral, at 1700 metres deep at the Cascade Plateau, off south-east Tasmania. A four-week expedition to...
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01.20. The drought has been blamed for a plague of grasshoppers sweeping through farms in Tasmania’s northern midlands. The Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association says farmers around Ross say...
View ArticleFlickr Friday: Overland Track
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. Editor’s note:...
View ArticleGiant sperm whales stranded in NW
The whales are stranded on Perkins Island in north-west Tasmania. (Photo: Parks and Wildlife) Rescuers in north-west Tasmania are waiting on equipment to arrive from Hobart so they can try save...
View ArticleTasmania records highest-ever temperature
Flinders Island airport broke the three-decade-old record, reaching 41.5 degrees just before 4pm today [01.30]. The previous high was 40.8 degrees, set in Hobart in 1976. Tasmanian temperatures have...
View ArticleWhale hunt on the run
Anti-whaling ship the Steve Irwin is currently in pursuit of the Japanese ship Nisshin Maru in the Ross Sea, more than 2,000 nautical miles south-east of Tasmania. The Sea Shepherd Society ship found...
View ArticleSad summer for whale strandings
Nearly 200 pilot whales and a handful of bottlenose dolphins have beached at Naracoopa on the eastern side of King Island in Bass Strait. By Monday afternoon only 54 of the 194 pilot whales were still...
View ArticleTasmania’s neon jellyfish find
Jellyfish expert Lisa Gershwin, curator of natural science at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Tasmania, caught the unnamed species in early March while swimming near a Tasmanian jetty...
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