Tropical Humidity and Cyclone Preparations

The city of Townsville was quiet just before 6 a.m., the river beside me flowing serenely as I ran and walked the parkway from Railway Estates to the Townsville Golf Club. A kookaburra’s crazy laugh...

Townsville Garage-sale Marathon

The corner store near Richard’s exudes the character of another era. Empty crates are piled outside it beneath a flat, projecting roof that shelters pedestrians from sun and rain. The prices of spec...

Skin Alert: This is Australia

While Vilis and I drove to the Rental Managers to put a deposit down for the house we found yesterday, I noticed that Townsville looked so much more refreshed and attractive than it had on our arrival...

Two Serendipitous Finds

Again, possum racket woke me in the night, and I wondered, Where is that python when we need it? The dawn air was soupy, the sun’s incipient rising a faint coral smear in the east.  Members of the ...