Austhetics

Australian mistletoe isn’t a parasite in the usual sense—it’s a hemiparasite, tapping into host trees for water and nutrients while still photosynthesising. With specialised “haustoria” roots and bird-spread seeds, it’s perfectly adapted to life in the canopy

Gathering Mistletoe - Frederick McCubbin.

Men gaze out upon the Southern Ocean from Woolshed Cave, SA.

Log Cabin Tobacco. Imagine punching a rollie filled with this stuff.

Old Eye Hospital, Woolloomooloo NSW.

Machattie Park blanketed in a winter morning's frost, Bathurst NSW.

RT @Austhetics: Tom Roberts painting 'The Big Picture' in the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

Incidents in the History of Cootamundra, Cootamundra Museum.

RT @lowlandsapien: Reminder that the Great Southern Reef exists and is very important

Fear not, we can confirm that Gerringong is still overwhelmingly White.

Riding the Breakers, Yallingup, WA.

On this day in 1908, Witches Falls in the Gold Coast hinterland was declared Queensland's first national park.

Longworth House, Scott Street, Newcastle Gifted to the Australasian Society of Patriots in 1928 by Hunter Valley businessman William Longworth. The Australasian Society of Patriots, founded in 1916, after splitting from the Australian Natives Association.

RT @AntipodeEmpire: Heavy cruiser HMAS Australia passing through the Panama Canal 🇦🇺 1935

The Sydney Harbour Bridge - A Colossus of the Southern Hemisphere (Sydney Morning Herald, 1932).

Tooleybuc, Western NSW.