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Tamlyn Dreaver
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Kookaburra. Honest. Writer, gamer, random crafter. She/her.
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Given my extensive posting habits (/s) this is probably literally every word I've used in the last year.
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "book" (8×), "cats" (4×), "hobart" (4×), "view" (4×), "check" (4×), "snow" (3×), "walk" (3×), "holiday" (3×), "finished" (3×), "seen" (3×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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He really felt I needed more spell checks and the like.
A tabby cat's head resting on a keyboard with pretty glowing lights, and an unfortunate amount of cat hair visible between the keys. He is absolutely close enough to hit multiple keys.
November 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Then back to Melbourne for a day of PAX, for the first time in long time. I didn't take pictures, except of game names to remember them to look into/wishlist later, since that sort of thing doesn't even occur to me. But this is my new void chicken.
A black void chicken plushie with angry red eyes, a Stardew Valley animal. It is soft and squishy and adorable and slightly evil.
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Royal Botanical Gardens in Hobart. Japanese Garden.
A waterfall over rocks, with a beautifully contrasting pink tree against the other green trees around it. I do not know the tree types, but they are probably Japanese.
October 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The Port Arthur Historic Site from a boat. Most prominent is the Penitentiary ruins, but you can also see part of the wall, the law courts, and the hospital at the back. The cruise (part of the ticket) was a good introduction to the site.
Water in the foreground, then sandstone ruins, then forested hills. The Penitentiary is still four storeys high in some spots and is quite an imposing ruin.
October 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Old Hobart Town in Richmond. A very cool historical model village.
Looking down a street of the model village, with bonsai myrtles, houses, fences, and figurines in various acts of daily life, such as the children balancing, and falling, off the fence in the foreground.
October 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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At Launceston, an abandoned car ferry up the River Tamar. And a small tug but our boat captain couldn't tell us about that one.
A dirty, rusty and with the beginnings of being plant covered, large old ferry against a river bank. It was blue and white once. A equally decrepit tug boat leans against it.
October 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A baby Tasmanian devil at Trowunna Wildlife Sanctuary.
A small nose, whiskers, eyes and dark fur peeking out from under a box. He wriggled under on the other side, then came out this way to look at us.
October 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Glacier Rock lookout, on the walk around Dove Lake.
A lake with a backdrop of mountains. Cradle Mountain's distinct, snow-speckled shape is clear. A tongue of bush-covered land thrusts into the lake.
October 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Wombat.

So many wombats!! Some more distance, some just chilling right by the boardwalk.
A close up of a very fluffy chunk of a wombat. It's nibbling grass without concern.
October 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Marions Lookout view. Down over Dove Lake. That is my first ever snow in the foreground. Real snow, at least. It snowed once when I was a kid, but that melted before it really reached us.
Another stunning vista. Snow in the foreground, then looking down at a curving lake, with more mountains in the background. There are light scratchings of snow on the mountains but more bushes and trees.
October 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Then we went on to Cradle Mountain and tried for many walks. This is an elderly King Billy Pine on the King Billy Walk (very aptly named).
Looking up the tall trunk of a tree. The other trees around stop part way up, and there's a ring of sunlight around this trunk, creating a cool effect.
October 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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A tulip farm on the north coast.
Close up of bright red tulips.
October 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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(Okay, not the picture sizes. Just Bluesky.)

The Nut, Stanley.
A beautiful, sunlit scene of an old volcanic plug, with a flat top and steep sides, almost surrounded by ocean except for a town-covered bridge of land. Photo is taken over fields on a hill. Every plant is vibrant green, and the ocean is intensely blue.
October 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Queenstown Pioneer Cemetery.
Grave stones on a hillside, shadowed by trees, grass everywhere, long abandoned.
October 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Russell Falls in Mount Field National Park was amazing and I did not capture it very well on camera. But the view from the top was also lovely and more capturable.
A river, framed by trees, that drops away suddenly in the picture, though you cannot otherwise see anything of the falls. Beyond it is more, smaller trees, and beyond them clouds mostly obscuring the mountains.
October 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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The view of Hobart from the Mona Roma ferry.
Looking over water towards piers with buildings and boats, with larger buildings beyond but also a great many trees, and a mountain rising even further beyond them.
October 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The holiday was with my sister. So we = myself and her. The view of Hobart from the Kunanyi / Mount Wellington walk. (We went to the Pipe Organs, not the summit, as it was the day we flew in and we started later.)
A view between framing trees of a tiny, hilly cityscape. The sky is white cluods and pale blue, the horizon lost in a blue blue, and the river at the centre of the image is also bright blue.
October 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I went on holiday. It was lovely. This is a red panda at Melbourne Zoo.
Adorable red panda curled up on a tree branch. Its cute face is looking at the camera, and an enormously fluffy tail dominates the curl.
October 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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A royal hakea, a shrub with wavy, prickly leaves with veined green edges, and the interiors starting from dead, then bright red-orange, then orange, then yellow at the top.
August 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Apparently it's a bee day. So bee!
A honey bee in the centre of a pink flower. Golden sunlight lights it up.
May 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Attempting to take photos of one of my cats (he is black, it is really hard) and apparently I caught him in a moment of heartbreak.
A slightly out of focus, but not badly so, picture of a silky black cat on a computer chair. Something in the angle or the droop of his whiskers or furrowed brow makes him look consumed by sadness.
May 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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All my birthday books together at last. Took me a while to get to Stefan's in the city, then I had to wait for the books from the interwebs.
A pile of books, from top to bottom: The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison, Ghostdrift by Suzanne Palmer, New Adventures in Space Opera edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong, The Diamond in the Window by Jane Langton, Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis, Unexploded Remnants by Elaine Gallagher, and Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa.
April 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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My parents got me one of the Rolife book nook kits as a gift. Nice and straightforward to make, and it's very pretty finished.
A warmly-lit book nook with a scene of a Japanese canal or similar, with a tram in the background and cherry trees and buildings as the walls. It is all made of wood and is stylised. The books surrounding it are barely seen in darkness.
April 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Photo of a beach: beautiful turquoise and dark blue waves gently breaking, seaweed speckled white sand, and green shrubs visible in the foreground and in the more distant dunes stretching out into the ocean.
March 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM