Rainforest Scenes from Paluma, North Queensland

Since this was Janis’s second-last day in Australia, Vilis and I took him to our favourite haunt, the rainforest at Paluma, a tiny village set atop the Paluma Range in North Queensland, a mere 8...

TRBOC Ross Lake Cruise

Birding and breakfast were the orders of the morning, since the Townsville Region Bird Observers Club had organized a cruise on Ross Lake and Ross River to be followed by breakfast on the shore of the...

Burdekin Views

In early morning, Vilis and I drove the Bruce Highway south from Townsville into that collage of vividly-green sugarcane plantations, tawny grazing lands, and dark, forested ranges of low peaks that c...

Birding at Townsville Town Common Conservation Park

As a reward for catching up my blog posts earlier this week, I spent much of the morning birding at the Townsville Town Common Conservation Park, a huge wetland and forest park on the outskirts of Tow...