For years, Pete Walsh had heard rumours that a mythical urban platypus was inhabiting Hobart’s waterway. To be honest, he said, he’d not really given it a thought. Then COVID hit.
Like many Aussies in those pandemic years, walking was about the only thing Pete could do. And with the Hobart Rivulet Walk on his doorstep, and photography both a sometimes-career and a passionate hobby, he took his camera along while he pondered both the nature surrounding him and the state of the world. And then it happened.
“It was just one of those things where you get a feeling and you peek your head over. “And then you see a platypus. During COVID, there were so few people around and the animals really seemed to come out across the city. They’d been enjoying our absence.”
