Australia: A ‘Megadiverse’ Country

By morning, the mesmerizing clouds of last evening had disintegrated into a rumpled grey roof over the Townsville sauna. Darkness still clung to the streets at 5:40 a.m., so I held my watch up close t...

The Collision of Aboriginal and European Cultures

A crescent moon greeted me as I cycled away from home in the darkness of 5:30 a.m. The air was refreshingly cool after rain overnight, with the mellow sounds of crickets and awakening birds unexpected...

Parrots

This morning was a rare cloudy one in Townsville, and I was invaded by a restlessness that made it impossible to sit still and write. Instead, I cycled to old haunts near Richard’s house in the subu...

Climate Change, and Townsville’s 10,000 Steps Program

At 5:40 a.m., a kookaburra’s dark laughter carried me out into a new week of running/walking in Townsville, this one with 10 intervals of 4 minutes of running alternated with 2 minutes of walking. O...