Australian Mammals: Common Wombat

Which chunky marsupial herbivore is an ardent burrower and has a liking for its own company? Australia’s captivating common wombat!   This month we travel to southern Australia for our intr...

Aussie Mammal Mugshots

I stole quietly into Townsville’s tropical dawn, the songs of a brush cuckoo and olive-backed oriole drawing me forth, the two vocalizations so different yet now so familiar – the brush cuckoo...

Wombats, and the Movie ‘The Tracker’

While Townsville stewed in morning showers and downpours, I continued catching up blog posts from our Victoria/Tasmania trip and investigated wombats. Last evening, I signed out two wombat-related pri...

Wineglass Bay/Hazards Beach Circuit and Narawntapu National Park, Tasmania

Under a dull sky promising rain, Vilis and I broke camp at Richardson’s Beach and drove to the trailhead of the Wineglass Bay Track, which is also the start of the Wineglass Bay/Hazards Circuit....