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Tamlyn Dreaver
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Kookaburra. Honest. Writer, gamer, random crafter. She/her.
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You can have some of the heat over here in Perth, if you'd like. Please. Take it. Please.
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 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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It snowed on the day we left. I was delighted. It was probably a barely noticeable fall for people for whom snow is ordinary.
October 12, 2025 at 1:09 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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Tasmania was ridiculously beautiful. Everywhere you looked. I come from a very flat state, so it was also differently beautiful.
October 12, 2025 at 12:28 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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(I realised I should have resized these because the uploads are struggling. Will do that for the rest.)
October 12, 2025 at 12:19 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