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A solo jaunt around Tasmania’s west coast and surrounds has led to the sighting of a rare white echidna by a Hobart resident.

“My dog and I … were travelling to Waratah to do a bit of a (west) coast adventure, and we were driving down a road near Cradle Mountain,” he said.

Mr Blayden said he wasn’t the only one excited about the discovery — with the members of the car that pulled in just behind him equally as quick to whip out their phones to document the experience.

Over his time with Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary in Southern Tasmania, Greg Irons has seen his fair share of animals — but he said sightings of albino echidnas were “few and far between”.

Michael Driessen, a zoologist with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, agreed that the likelihood of spotting a white echidna, like the one seen by Mr Blayden, was “pretty rare”.

However, he said without being able to see the eyes of the echidna in the videos more closely, he couldn’t be certain that this one definitely was albino — with opinions varied among the experts contacted by the ABC.

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