Shelley Beach, Townsville

With the cool air of an early winter morning wafting over us, Vilis, Janis, and I left the Kia in the Bald Rock car park in the Townsville Town Common Conservation Park and hiked south around the west...

Fairfield Waters Wetland, Townsville

Cloud and a cool wind accompanied me as I cycled to the Fairfield Waters wetland, keen to photograph the little black cormorant nesting colony and other avian residents of the wetland and its border o...

Home from Western Australia

This morning, the hunt was on. A great bowerbird slowly swallowed a spider with a distended, grey abdomen. A white-bellied cuckoo-shrike devoured one insect and immediately flew into an adjacent tree ...

Smart Dingoes

Townsville: Warm wind rustled palm fronds in our yard and blew dead fronds slithering down onto the ground where they landed with resounding thuds. It seemed a harbinger of something new, some change ...