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Launceston City Park – Tasmania 2024
On what is effectively the Eastern edge of the Launceston CBD is Launceston City Park. Today it is a well manicured urban park, featuring a kids playspace, lots of green space, a duck pond, a a couple of water features, a conservatory, a band rotunda and a monkey enclosure. Yes, you read that right –…
Tasmania 2024 – Introduction
Hello! This is an introduction to my 2024 trip to Tasmania. The more detailed posts are not going to follow chronological order that i did them in. I think I will group them into geographical groupings. I took a total of 4400 photographs. It will take some time to work through them and process those…
Be Curious Photo Walk – March 2024
The March 2024 Be Curious Photo Walk at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, attended by guide Cristy, captured various natural highlights for free due to the visitor’s centre closure. Photography focused on contrasting textures in tree bark, a wattle leaf’s unusual transition from juvenile to adult, and dynamic lighting effects on lake landscapes. Additionally, a snoozing koala…
Be Curious Photography Walk – February 2024
I have been a bit quiet lately with paid work and other stuff, but I bring you a few photos I took on the February 2024 Be Curious photowalk. The walk this month was at the Black Mountain Peninsula, sticking out into Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. As usual with Cristy’s walks, there is a…
Perth/Fremantle, November 2023
My actual paid work sent me to Perth for a few days in mid-November 2023. While I was busy for most of the days, I did have the opportunity on a few evenings to get out and take some photos. It was very warm, so I limited my adventurousness a little, but I did manage…
Where has the shop gone?
As some of you may know, I originally had a shop associated with this site. It never really did anything useful, apart from keeping me occupied playing around with it. I didn’t sell anything. In about 20 months of operation, I didn’t sell a single product. There are, I think two possible reasons for that:…
A Journey to Tasmania – Part 3: Bruny Island
This week, I’ll talk about our trip to Bruny Island. This island lies to the north of the Channel Peninsula, and forms the barrier between the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and the bay into which the Derwent River flows. It is effectively two islands joined by an entirely natural thin strip of land, and is quite well…
A Journey to Tasmania – Part 2B: Hastings Caves and Thermal Springs
In this post, I’ll talk about the Hastings Caves themselves, and the Hot Springs Pool walks. In my previous post (see here) I discussed the general travel and food considerations for this location. Arriving at the Caves Visitors Centre The Caves Visitors Centre is a few kilometres past Hastings, and a bit further inland in…
A Journey to Tasmania – Part 2A: General comments on Hastings Caves and the surrounding area
Our second outing for the trip was down to the Hastings Caves and Thermal Springs. I’ll cover the caves and springs themselves in the next post, but the travel there and back warrants some mention, so I will discuss that first. Caves next week. I didn’t take any photos on the actual travel part of…
A Journey To Tasmania – Part 1: Tahune Air Walk
Due to an unfortunate family event, the opportunity arose for the Sprite clan to spend a week and a bit of the school holidays actually on holiday in Tasmania. I had spent nearly 2 weeks there a few weeks previous, but I was working and attending to family business and didn’t have a great deal…
