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Erica
Larke-Ewing

Erica Larke-Ewing is an ugg boot-wearing, coffee-drinking mother of three. As a sixth-generation Tasmanian, she is passionate about exploring the plants, birds, geology, and history that shape our surroundings. When she’s not scratching around for remnants of the past, she is creating landscape paintings under the nom de plume “Kichikoo”, raising money for good and hunting for interesting rocks with her ever-patient husband. She lives in South Hobart with her family and a pug called Bernard.


Erica Larke-Ewing is an ugg boot-wearing, coffee-drinking mother of three. As a sixth-generation Tasmanian, she is passionate about exploring the plants, birds, geology, and history that shape our surroundings. When she’s not scratching around for remnants of the past, she is creating landscape paintings under the nom de plume “Kichikoo”, raising money for good and hunting for interesting rocks with her ever-patient husband. She lives in South Hobart with her family and a pug called Bernard.


Forty South

The Hobart mud lark

by Erica Larke-Ewing
30 May 2025

It’s at the bottom of the creek, partially covered in dark, slimy mud ...

We pay our respects to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional and original owners and continuing custodians of lutruwita, and acknowledge elders past and present.

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