Smoke on the Queensland Coast: Bushfires and Prescribed Burns

Wind which this morning bore a cool bite ripened into flirting warmth by the time I walked to Bicentennial Park in late afternoon. The Ross River ran high, its banks barricading tidal inflow, its twis...

Australian Chamber Music Festival

After breakfast I wandered along beside the golf course and into Bicentennial Park, soaking up the dry tropics birdlife so different from the rainforest birds at Lake Paluma, yet endearingly familiar ...

Lake Paluma

In clear sunlight and cool, upland air, grey-headed robins inspected Vilis’s and my campsite while we ate a hot porridge breakfast. Operatic chowchillas sang resonating melodies in the rainforest, a...