Townsville’s Cultural Festival on The Strand

In mid-afternoon, armed with umbrellas to ward off the sun, Vilis and I strolled through Townsville’s Cultural Festival 2010, a five-day exhibition of North Queensland multiculturalism held in S...

Cassowary Country

In the darkness of 5 a.m., Vilis and I rose from our bed, packed gear for an outing, and drove north from Townsville on the Bruce Highway, our destination the cassowary hotspot centred on Mission Beac...

Two Aussie Avian Courtship Rituals

Got him! This morning, while birding in Idalia, I photographed a male great bowerbird at his avenue bower. Surprisingly accommodating (considering how many times I’ve unsuccessfully attempted to...

Lotus Lily and Australian Water Lilies

Early light swept sound and colour into Anderson Park Botanical Gardens, where insects rasped out rough songs in clumps of bamboo that stood like gigantic sheaves of grain, and where lotus lilies and ...