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...

A Confusion of Seasons

At 6 a.m., my bicycle lights flashed white and red into the Queensland twilight as I rode to the fitness track. There, I sat up and chinned up, and swung and rotated hips while dawn swept in with clea...

Maintaining Social Authority in a New Land

While stretching on the living room floor, I noticed – in a small triangle of faintly-lit sky bordered by roof and trees – black flying foxes streaming past overhead, heralded eastward by the dawn...

Toad Day Out in Townsville

Green frogs really do occur in toilets, as I discovered this morning upon finding one in our toilet at dawn. I saw a dark, moving blob in the water and flicked on the light switch. There it was, looki...