Nature Things

Mount Cameron | Field Nats and Granite

Easter spent the right way I have written about the Tas Field Nats Club before, a couple of times (here and here), and now I am writing about them again. This time in relation to the Easter Camp at Mount…

Lake Belcher Track | With No Lake

The Day Ten Project Recently I switched to a nine day fortnight at work, leaving the tenth day for exploring and botanising. Today I decided to wander out past Wombat Moor along the Lake Belcher Track up at Mount Field…

Photographing Nature | Nicely

What constitutes the perfect nature photo? Is it the detail and the sharpness? The composition? The balance of colour and light or the way they interact? Perhaps it is all those things and no doubt you will come up with…

Shadow Lake in the snow

There is something rather special about snow covered landscapes. Everyone loves them, well, everyone seems to love them in some capacity. Even if they aren’t fans of being cold, or the potential risk of being cold, they still have a…

Let’s look at Lomatia | Kings and Guitars

A bit of background on Lomatia Lomatia is a genus of plants in the Proteaceae family. Chances are the plants that comes to mind when you think Proteaceae is Protea, Banksia and Grevillea. You would be correct, although the Proteaceae…

Tasmanian Orchids | Caves that are handsome | Tafoni

Tasmania’s orchids | Peter Fehre May’s Tasmanian Field Naturalist Club meeting was one of my favourites to date. Yeah, I am biased, because I love Tasmania’s native orchid population, but then who doesn’t right. We were lucky enough to have…

Omphalotus nidifomis Photo by Scott Corkill

Omphalotus nidiformis | Glow in the dark fungi

Omphalotus nidiformis, or the ‘ghost fungi’ as it is commonly known, is a species of fungi which is quite often found growing in southern Australia, which of course means Tasmania. Generally found at the base of Eucalyptus or exotic trees…

Aurora Australis

Aurora | For Evan

Many people know what the aurora is.  It’s those lights in the sky!  The Aurora Borealis, which is the northern hemisphere version, gets the most coverage. Although this is changing and a lot more people are beginning to realise that…

Nothofagus Gunni AKA Deciduous Beech. Near the Woodland Walk in Mount Field National Park

Fagus | The Photos

I don’t usually post a whole bunch of photos of the same thing… But it’s my party and I’ll cry if I want… Not that I did any crying, because I bloody love it up in this part of the…