Colin Chick
Tasmanian ASD dad with GAD, depression, and PTSD & six neuro-and-gender-diverse kids. Amateur photographer and film maker. Lower-case el liberal. Woke! He/Him
- “It's All Greek and Roman to Me” A bronze statue of Apollo stands atop the J.F. Archibald Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, Sydney, seemingly reaching out and almost touching the top of a pinnacle on one of the front towers of 🧵
- When your leg becomes an impromptu psycho-cat parkour wall.
- “Loong” Chinese Garden of Friendship, Chinatown, Sydney, Australia, is host to a colony of Eastern water dragons (Physignathus lesueurii), a species of lizard endemic to south-eastern Australia.
- “Show Some Backbone” Pass Road, Tasmania
- “Theseus Slaying the Minotaur” Archibald Fountain (François-Léon Sicard, Artist), Hyde Park, Sydney
- “"Daaarling, This is the Biggest Erection in Australia!" -Jeanie Little, at the Opening of Centrepoint Tower (now named Sydney Tower Eye) on the 25 September, 1981”
- “Dame Nellie & Dame Joan” Sydney Opera House
- “Pax Vobiscum” Rear view of statue outside St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, commemorating Patrick Francis Moran (1830 – 1911) who was the third Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney.
- “For Brianna” The Tasmanian nativehen (or native-hen or native hen or Turbochook!) (Tribonyx mortierii), also known by its palawa kani name piyura, is a flightless rail and one of twelve species of birds endemic to Australia's island state of Tasmania. Hobart Rivulet, South Hobart, Tasmania
- “They had brought loaves of bread, butter, biscuits, jam, tins of fruit, ripe plums, bottles of ginger-beer, a kettle to make tea, and anything else they could think of! George and Julian staggered up the cliff with the heavy box.” Isle of Caves, Tasmania
- “And another thing. We can’t have everybody talking at once. We’ll have to have ‘Hands up’ like at school, and take Turns - No, not you guys up the front! I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking. And Jack... Don't poop on the conch!” Isle of Caves, Tasmania
- “Armus” Distorted reflections on the Gordon River, Tasmania
- “Galerina Ballerina[s] IV” Galerina(?) species of fungus, Kaoota Tramway Track, Tasmania
- “Michael Usnea Finnegan” "Old Man's Beard" Lichen, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- New Podcast episode out now! open.spotify.com/episode/5LXw... This week, Thomas and Colin watch the 2021 American action film, F9. Thomas misses out on Ice Cream at MIT. Colin witnesses a mass beaching event, and is contaged with a strange icthyoviral enplaguenation.
- “Raincatcher” Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata), Mount Field National Park, Tasmania
- “It'll Cost You Just Nicholls For a Lake View, Rayner Shine!” Lake Nicholls, and a heavily-obscured Lake Rayner, viewed from the Mount Field East assent, Tasmania.
- “Short Back and Sides” Richea pandanifolia (commonly known as Richea or Pandani), Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- “Esau” Lichen and moss microcosm, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- “Boulderdash AKA Word to the Wise: DON'T Drop Your Lens Cap Here!” (Yes, after unstacking WAAAY too many boulders, almost hyperextending an arm, then returning the boulders to original(ish) positions, the lens cap was retrieved - thanks for the help, Helen!) Mount Field East Ascent, Tasmania.
- “Beatties Tarn” Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- “Lichen Subscribe XVI” Lake Nicholls Track, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- WEEEEE'RE BAAAAAAACK!!! open.spotify.com/episode/7sRe... This week, Thomas and Colin watch the 1990 American psychological horror thriller film, Misery. Thomas has a catastrophic Christmas Eve. Colin loses his non-existent notes. That's nice. 🧵
- “Feed Me, Seymour!” Mountain Caladenia orchid (Caladenia alpina), Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- “Falkor” Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- “Tassie's Briar Patch” Richea scoparia, a species of plant endemic to Tasmania, commonly referred to as the honey bush or simply scoparia to many bushwalkers. Richea scoparia and Niveoscincus microlepidotus (snow skink) form a unique interaction, where N. microlepidotus aids in 🧵
- “Affirmative, mistress!” A small segment of the view South-ish from Mount Field East; the most obvious pointy bit is Mount Sarah Jane, 39km away. Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- “My Love for Heathcliff Resembles the Eternal Rocks Beneath: a Source of Little Visible Delight, But Necessary.” A floral menagerie of native alpine heathland plants below the rocky climb to the summit of Mount Field East, Tasmania.
- “The Other Sheltinack's [Mountain Pink]berry Shrub is Always a More Mauvey Shade of Pinky Russet” Leptecophylla parvifolia, commonly known as the mountain pinkberry, is a small to medium sized shrub in the family Ericaceae that is endemic to the highlands of Tasmania. Mount Field National Park.
- “Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite [or scratch] your legs off!” Beautiful, but viciously spiky and scratchy on shins, Richea scoparia (also known as Dracophyllum persistentifolium, apparently) is endemic to Tasmania. Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- “Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights” The Mount Field East Track zigzags its way across Windy Moor, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- “Weathering With You” Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- “Tanglefoot” Australia has just one true temperate deciduous native tree — the deciduous beech or Fagus (Nothofagus gunnii), endemic to Tasmania. Also known as Tanglefoot, due to its twisted, ground-hugging, trip-hazard branches. This image of a Fagus' small leaves was taken near Lake Fenton.
- “That's No Gum” Snow Gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora), near Lake Fenton, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania.
- “R.A.G.G. M.O.P.P.” Pandani (Richea pandanifolia) Endemic to Tasmania, these ones were photographed between Lake Rayner and the summit of Mount Field East, Tasmania.
- We've bought our virtual seats for this year's #PinkTest and @mcgrathfoundation! www.pinktest.com.au
- “FWK: Freshwater Kraken” Lake Fenton, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania
- “Spirit Animal VII” The alpine cool-skink (Carinascincus greeni), also known commonly as the northern snow skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Tasmania. Summit of Mount Field East, Tasmania
- “Hey, Baby There Ain't No Easy Way Out” Entrance Island, with Hells Gates on the left, from Braddon Point, Tasmania
- “‘Forest Specular’” Franklin River Nature Trail, Tasmania Artist's statement: FOREST SPECULAR 2019. STAINLESS STEEL AND CONVEX STAINLESS STEEL MIRRORS. The Forest Specular reflects the forests of the palawa people, a forest saved from devastation. 🧵
- “Convict Castle” Remains of the 1828 "new" penitentiary, Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania
- “Shiny Striped Eyebright, Semi-Parasite” Euphrasia striata, commonly known as ‘shiny striped eyebright’ is an endemic Tasmanian species. It is semi-parasitic, forming a non-specific relationship by plugging into the root systems of the surrounding host during seedling establishment. 🧵
- This semi-parasitic nature helps the species survive the harsh conditions it often inhabits. Mount Murchison Regional Reserve, Tasmania
