12th June 2010 Coles Bay

The Sound of Music – boring.

Alladin – good.

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4th July 2010 Coles Bay

I feel for this fellow. He was struggling along with two of his legs tangled in seaweed. He waited patiently and trustingly while I removed it. Not long after this he started doing the soldier crab thing of spiralling into the sand on some sort of universal soldier crab signal. They all disappear within 15 minutes or so.

It wasn’t till looking at these pictures that I saw he has a bung eye.

They are so tiny that people walk on them, often indifferently or without even knowing.

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25th July 2010 Geeveston

Another fungi from the track to Kermandi falls.

I’ve been reading a book during my breaks at work. I don’t read that often unless I’m on holiday. I’m really enjoying this book, so I’d like to recommend it.

It is Creatures that once were men, by Maxim Gorky. I downloaded it from the Australian Gutenberg site.

Another great book I have read, also downloaded from Gutenberg, is Last of the Mohicans. It is an old book – 1826. English of the day, although understandable, is different to what we speak now.

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25th July 2010 Geeveston.

This photo is to celebrate the arrival of my new neice, born to Joanne and her partner Jason.

It is a young fern. The stalk is about 50cm high, but the first leaves are just starting to unwrap. The ferns probably grow so tall because there is minimal light.

It is beside the track to Kermandi falls.

The track used to be fairly faint, with a lot of climbing over and under fallen trees. Someone has cleaned the track up with a chainsaw and brushcutter. The track itself is just not as interesting now.

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23rd May 2010 Coles Bay

This photo of Chai reminds me of seals, the way they lie along the top of the water with their heads out.

I paddled out to Seal Rocks once, and was swamped with seals. One young one actually landed on the front deck of my kayak. The little ones would check me out in front, where I could see them. The big, adult ones, would stay behind me; I could hear them snort when they broke the surface.

13th March 2005 Seal Rocks

The fear of sharks keeps most kayakers away from this area

The camera I used for this was a five megapixel point and shoot in a clip lock plastic bag I remember shooting blind, not being able to see anything on the screen because of the glare. And not hearing anything from the camera because of the wind and the water smashing on the nearby rocks.

I also had to keep a hand on the paddle (not to lose it) and watch for any reasonable waves which came in frequently and meant I had to secure the camera and get both hands on the paddle ready for a brace or roll. I kept getting closer to the rocks too, and would have to back paddle every now and then. This didn’t leave much time to consider sharks

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20th May 2010 Hobart

This is part of one shelf in a room with shelves from floor to ceiling on all walls. I don’t know what the criteria is for shoes to be stored in this room; most of Vanessa’s shoes are stored elsewhere in plastic boxes.

It is a collection that has been over 20 years in the making.

Another of Vanessa’s collections is rubber ducks.

Again this is only a selection. All these ducks get used on occasion by the children of friends. Each of them has a name, like Police Duck, Firefighter Duck, Soldier Duck, Devil Duck and so on.

Another of her collections is watches. There is a small tree dripping with watches.

And I forgot about the hats!

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20th February 2010 Seven mile beach

I first met these guys at a park in New Norfolk. This was our second meeting, at the beach.

Fergus is the one with Fonzie’s tail in his mouth. He grabs Fonzies tail so often that Fonzie seems indifferent to it.

Fonzie is an athlete and ball dog.  Fergus a socialite and a tail dog. If he isn’t occupied with chasing Fonzie’s tail, Fergus will be off making friends with whoever else is around.

Like all ball dogs, Fonzie has a knack of finding tennis balls. On the few occasions that he can’t find a tennis ball, he’ll come up with a substitute, like a pine cone.

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4th April 2010 Wynyard

It was the second time that I had been to the Wynyard market. I spied this weird looking doll sitting behind someone’s stall – perhaps it was previously at the front and puttiing off customers?

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3rd April 2010 Burnie

This photo has grown on me. It was a snap shot; so close and with a big lens, things happen quickly. I wish I had of got the full wing span.

It is an immature pacific gull; you can see two of them sitting behind the seagull below. They are big birds. The photo was taken from a wharf in Burnie.

The birds were hanging around for the possibility of a feed from the the fishermen – their unused bait or entrails of filleted fish.

The big piles in the background are woodchips. The woodchips used to be trees from beautiful areas such as the Tarkine rainforest.

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3rd April 2010 Burnie

Another photo from the Somerset trip.

If you’re in Burnie, and cross the river to the East, you will see this fence. It is long. You can see a bit of mustard yellow in the distance, which is the side of a shop, that is where this side of the fence ends.

It is some sort of open space inside; I think it was a horse racing track.

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