Another Winter in Tasmania.

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A beautiful sunny day just cold.A greenies nightmare across the river.
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Mr. plover seems to be in the doghouse.
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And where I am headed this afternoon.
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I saved most of the chips from lunch and had some fun with the seagulls.These guys at Beauty Point are pretty good at catching them in the air.
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So today I am going to see the platypus and the sea horses.
Walking in front of me a couple with their 2 young grandsons.One looked up and said Pop can I ride a seahorse today? I'd like to see that.
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A smart bird.Several people fishing.Mainly catching tiddlers which they would throw back.Easy meal.
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So into see the sea horses.first the breeding tanks.Feeding time.
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And now the baby tanks.
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Now to the grow out tanks.These ones are in line to be sold to pet shops all over the world.
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The food is thrown in away from the masses and the horse race is on.
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The first tank was female sea horses.The second males.they were a lot slower on the uptake.
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Then a room with more sea creatures.
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And quite a few fish.Several from the Abrolhos Islands.The captions often were not the fish on display.
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And Southern rock lobster.
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And the last of the fish.
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[tgh]

Can one of you sharp taswegians please advise if the cream ship in post 101 is the Old Cape Pillar ?
If so what is she doing these days?

 

[drron]

Can one of you sharp taswegians please advise if the cream ship in post 101 is the Old Cape Pillar ?
If so what is she doing these days?

No this ship is the MV Wyuna.She has been waiting for a while to be taken back to Victoria.

MV Wyuna - Maritime Centre

The Victorian Maritime Centre includes displays of equipment of the ex-HMAS Otama Submarine, a Memorial Wall and other maritime memorabilia.

www.maritimecentre.com.au

 

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Can one of you sharp taswegians please advise if the cream ship in post 101 is the Old Cape Pillar ?
If so what is she doing these days?

Don has answered your question but I can understand your query. When I saw it I thought it might have been the Cape Don - a sister ship of Cape Pillar. I was able to zoom the image enough to see that it was actually the Wyuna.

 

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Took a while..

She is now the KALYMNIAN EXPRESS , Liverstock Carrier, Panamanian Flag owned by Lafasi Shipping Panama

Now that is the top of y'all need to know list for the day I am sure……..

 

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Don has answered your question but I can understand your query. When I saw it I thought it might have been the Cape Don - a sister ship of Cape Pillar. I was able to zoom the image enough to see that it was actually the Wyuna.

Must have been because of the wonderful photography.

 

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So after finishing at Seahorse world I went across to the platypus exhibit.now i have seen numerous platypus in the wild in tasmania so I did wonder whether it was worth it.but i decided to go and it was worth it.
As in the Seahorse Aquarium Platypus World runs hourly tours on the hour.It closes at 1530.I went in a little before 1500 and there was a 1500 tour.It turned out I was the only one on the tour.I think the guide enjoyed it as at least I knew a little about platypus and she was interested in where I had seen them.

We started off at the male enclosure.Only 1 male who just kept swimming.All the animals here are rescued.There is no breeding program though the male does have a direct entrance to one of the female tanks and has one female he always heads to.She did lay eggs one year but they didn't hatch.so here is the male.
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What I enjoyed was to see them underwater and the ability to photograph them underwater.
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And here is his female friend.
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She was a lot easier to photograph underwater as a much smaller tank.
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Though here she is having a good scratch.
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She really liked diving.
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Now it was feed time.

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There are two females in this tank.the second was a bit shy.The following photos show both of them.there are slight differences in their colouring.
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The shy one often dived and hid under this log.
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They also have Australia's other monotreme, the short beak echidna.It is also found in PNG along with 3 long beaked echidnas.They are all threatened there as they apparently are tasty.
There are 3 echidnas here, 1 male and 2 female.
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They feed them on a tour.The male is always there first.
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Now my guide puts out 3 plates of food.One for each animal.the male tucks in first.
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But his favourite female goes to the plate furthest from him so he heads over there.
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The lonely female just keeps eating but is joined by the male when the other 2 plates are finished.
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The male though realised his favourite had finished so off he took in a chase all around the enclosure.The rejected female just licked all the dishes clean.
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It was an enjoyable afternoon.better than i expected.But there is the cost.
Seahorses - Adult $25
Platypus. - Adult $23.
$2 off for concessions including seniors cards.

The seahorse aquarium has the better giftshop and snacks.There is meant to be a cafe there.I presume it is upstairs.Most young kids I think would find it an enjoyable time.