Category Archives: Tas

Flinders Island flight

Australia, Flinders Island, Landscape, mountains, ocean, Plant, Tas, trees

When The Doc visited Flinders Island in late 2023 for a photography course, the group went on a plane ride. The plane took off from Lady Barron airs strip and flew over Cape Barren Island, Green Dog Island and a few other islands all part of the Furneaux group. The images were taken through Plexiglass, so the images are soft and they had heavy colour casts. The Doc got rid of most of the colour casts with some recent techiques, and has salvaged a few images. Not inspiring images but better than nothing.

Tasmanian echidna – Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus

4X4, Australia, Flinders Island, Landscape, mammals, marsupials, Tas, Uncategorised, Wildlife

Also known as an albino echidna because of its lighter colour. The other name is pale-coloured echidna which is more accurate, as it is much lighter in colour than the mainland echidna.

Coastal Wetland – algal bloom

Australia, coastal, Flinders Island, mosses/lichens, other, Plant, Tas, Textures

Something a bite different a very rare type of algal bloom. Most algal blooms are just green, this one ranges from green through brown to white and many shades in between.

In this coastal wetland an area was not subject to normal tidal movement. However, during a king tide this area filled with water, an algal bloom resulted and as the water evaporated the sun would begin to dry out the bloom from green through brown to white. The white occurs after the bloom completely bleached by the sun.

This shot shows all 3 major colours, taken from above. Nature can create some amazing colours and textures even from a humble algal bloom. Click on photo to see full size.

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Flinders Island – Castle Rock

Australia, coastal, Flinders Island, Landscape, mosses/lichens, Tas, Tasmania

A photo from The Doc’s recent visit to Flinders Island. This is Castle Rock a granite monolith on the edge of Marshall Bay. The rock is 4 or 5 stories high. The “small” rock on the right side is taller than a human. That is orange lichen growing on the rock, something not uncommon in Tasmania. The earlier image The Doc posted had even more lichen, click here.

The picture is two images stitched together. The Doc was testing a new tilt + shift lense. Nothing special in post processing, just a small re-crop, plus some saturation and sharpening.

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Flinders Island – seascape

Australia, coastal, Flinders Island, Landscape, moss & lichen, rock, seascape, Tas, Tasmania, Textures

No carcasses today, although The Doc did photograph a few including the Bennett’s Wallaby and a Potoroo, at least I think it was. A Potoroo is a kangaroo-like marsupial about the size of a rabbit.

He is a seascape from a beach close to Emita Beach, a beach without a name. Looking this good it should have one. That is lichen growing on the granite. Two pictures stitched together, cropped slightly, some saturation and sharpening. Click on thumbnail to see full size image.

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Flinders Island – Little Penguin

Australia, birds, Flinders Island, Tas, Tasmania, Wildlife

The Doc booked an appointment with the hospital to take out my stitches on Friday. I have about 10 after the operation to remove a skin cancer.

The Doc explored this morning and this afternoon went for a walk, taking landscape and textures photos around Emita Beach and Marshall Bay, including Castle Rock.

He also found a Little Penguin carcass wash up on Emita Beach. It was no older than 48 hours, showing no sign of predation. It appeared it died at sea and washed up on the beach, no signs of rigamortis . Lots of carcasses around Flinders island because of the abundant wildlife, at least was not roadkill.

 

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One of the secluded beaches The Doc visited. Lichen growing on granite creates some awesome colours. Click on picture to see the large version.

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Flinders Island – wombats

Australia, Flinders Island, marsupials, Tas, Tasmania, Uncategorised, Wildlife

Having visited Flinders Island previously, you hit the ground running. An early change of plans however, because it is a public holiday today, so The Doc cannot buy food. So off the pub for lunch. They are generous helpings and The Doc still feels full at 9pm.

When driving around the Island there was a lot of roadkill, especially wombats. Rowena at the car hire firm had mentioned at least 4 juvenile wombats were being looked after. She described them and they sound quite cute.

A quick rest then off to West End for wildlife, quite a few Bennett’s Wallabies and Pademelons. The Doc is still sorting the photos so only a wombat today, roadkill I am afraid, as the live ones tend to avoid people. They tend to give you their behind, often just running into the bush leaving their backsides showing, one today did a similar thing on the road, which increases the chance of becoming roadkill.

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Flinders Island – return trip

coastal, Flinders Island, Landscape, marsupials, moss & lichen, mountains, ocean, Tas, Tasmania

The Doc leaves early Monday morning for Flinders Island for a second visit. Reports from the first trip are here, here (textures) and here (wildlife). There is still a few things to do, as Flinders is a large Island.