Seastack Landscape #1
Seastack Landscape #2
Returning through the fog
Wave at Sunset
The wetlands nature reserve
Rabbits and penguins
The old Sandy Bay hut - and neighbours
Meet the Royals!
Penguin Highway
The Royal Colony (or is that Chateau?)
The five metre rule #1
The five metre rule #2
Tilba
Beach scene at Sandy Bay
Hey, what's that round glass thing on the box?
The Regal Itch
Royal Penguin Boogie
Jacarandas
The Horse Team
Visiting Lusitania Bay
The old Lusitania Bay hut
Swimming King Penguins
Farewell, Macquarie Island
Three Satellites
Taking a Rest
Visiting Crimson Rosella
Bluetongue Portrait
Our Local Bluetongue
The Dragon on the Wonga Wonga on the Fence
Portrait of a Dragon
Climbing Guinea Flower
Life's a Beach
Antarctica in Hobart
The Garden Through the Window
Vineyard, Huon Valley
Along the Huon River estuary
Sunset Panorama
Old Apple Shed on the Huon
Protea Flower
Mauve Blossoms
The Horse is Ready
Inside MONA
Impermanence
Upstairs at MONA
Watch Your Step!
Reserved Parking
Richmond Bridge
Richmond Bridge
Dry Stone Wall
What a Goose!
Tasmanian Native-hen
Reflecting on Richmond
How's Your Headache?
The Callington Mill
Red-browed Firetail
The Hazards
A Sunset for New Year's Eve
Approaching Sunset, Coles Bay
NewYear
Across from Coles Bay
Waiting for the Starter
Tide's Out!
Grey Fantail
Sydney Opera House - way back!
The watching skua
Rockhopper penguins
Bridge meeting
The watching Gentoo
Gentoo and chick
More Horehound bugs
Horehound bugs
Near the station, Macquarie Island
Elephant seal pup
Let's do the time warp....
The web on the Wollemi
Macquarie Island from offshore
Elephant seals at Macquarie Is.
Macquarie Island beach
Little native orchid #2
Little native orchid #1
Down the Derwent
A different view of Hobart
DC3s at Essendon, 1965
Arriving at Lord Howe Island by flying boat, 1974.
Putting a tankful in the Tiger
Ryan STM
Sandringham in Sydney
Leaving
Castaway by Flying Boat!
Hobart Waterfront
Marina Svetaeva in Hobart
Long Beach Sunset
Running wild
Gum nuts
Busy bee
Indigo is magenta
Quiet morning
Handsome Flat-pea
Evening at Lakes Entrance
Gippsland Lakes
Gippsland forests
Big sky, small fence
The visiting Blue-tongue
Banksia flower
Eastern Yellow Robin
The headland
Visiting Purple Swamphen
At the liquorice factory
Darkness has fallen...
Somewhere there's a fence...
Tiny leaf insect
Spring is here!
Feral kids...
Sunrise
White-eared Honeyeater
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Female Superb Fairy Wren
House Sparrow
Port Lincoln Parrot (Ringnecked)
Peregrine Falcon
Pelican reflections
Red Wattlebird
White cockatoo arrival
Scarlet Robin (F)
Scarlet Robin (M)
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The sad record is that when Macquarie Island was discovered by sealers in 1810, they promptly began killing the many fur seals for their pelts. One ship alone was recorded to have taken over 35,000. In total, over 200,000 were taken by the early 1820s: by then the fur seal population had been exterminated and nobody even knows what species had been there. When the ANARE station began operation in 1948 a few fur seals were found in isolated areas, but there was no record of a pup being born there until 1954. Numbers gradually increased and, in 1968, we found small numbers around the rocks on North Head. I understand the population has been increasing substantially since the early 1980s.
But what species is this? I am no sealologist (if there's such a word), but three species now are living at Macquarie - the most common being the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella), the next most common the Subantarctic fur seal (A. tropicalis); and the New Zealand fur seal (A. forsteri). To make it even more complicated, it seems they all are hybidising! I'll simply make the obvious statement that this is a fur seal and will be happy to be advised on the details by an expert.
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