Category: Koh Lin
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Bird Watching at the Beanie Festival 2023
Alice Springs Beanie Festival Author Koh Lin ◦ Wow… the Alice Springs Beanie Festival 2023 has done it again… known as the Beanie Centre of the world, the iconic festival event that brings beanies from around Australia and also from… Continue reading
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Touring the Red Centre Way with Puppy Love…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Wow… it was amazing when we won “The Love of your Best Friend” award, and we know our birth mother Marilyn Hunter, who lovingly crafted us for the Alice Springs Beanie Festival, was equally thrilled. You… Continue reading
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Becoming a widow…
Author Koh Lin ◦ I was engulfed by a wave of sadness when I came into work (after the weekend break). It had been a reasonable pleasant weekend for me, and although I knew the end was near, I was… Continue reading
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Elizabeth Bay
Author Koh Lin ◦ 1981 I met you for a brief moment when our path’s crossed… a pleasurable repose and when you passed you left behind for those who cared an image, a memory, a part of your time that… Continue reading
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not quite the surf… Lifeguard
Author Koh Lin ◦ After my umpteenth rescue, it appeared to me that I was like a surf lifesaver, except without the surfboard, or the surf… ok so there was no beach, and it was just a swimming pool… so… Continue reading
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Let us prey…
Author Koh Lin ◦ I would love to tell you a tale… not any tail… in fact I am not sure what lizard tail this is, but I am thinking that the lizard got away by the skin of it’s… Continue reading
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Strike a pose… potty wasp…
Author Koh Lin ◦ One of the interesting and amazing wasps often seen in Central Australia is the Potter Wasp (Delta latreillei). A fairly large wasp (the one pictured here is just over 3.5 centimetres in length from head to… Continue reading
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There’s more than size, when opposite attracts
Author Koh Lin ◦ Size is not the only difference between the male and female Australian Golden Orb Weaver Spider… they actually look different. This is known as “sexual dimorphism”. As you can see here, in the world of Golden-Orb… Continue reading
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Secrets in my garden…
Author Koh Lin ◦ As a well known phrase from a late 1960’s popular American television sitcom… “I see nothing!” That was me… and I suspect a lot of other people. With the growing interest in the natural world around… Continue reading
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a penthouse with a view…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Who would have known… that from the first row of single bedroom units — I guess you could call these the ground floor units — an apartment block would be built above them. I might have… Continue reading
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My yellow hairy bug…
Author Koh Lin ◦ Another day at work… and after a windy night, I had just finished my morning task of pool maintenance. I had taken the pool cleaner out and there was not one leaf in the pool, or… Continue reading
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Loving the River Red Gum
Author Koh Lin ◦ Found growing across Australia is the River Red Gum. Although I have always noticed them, I really did not pay too much attention, as living in Central Australia, they were all around me. Since I have… Continue reading