North to Daintree Village, North Queensland

At 6:15 a.m., beneath a blue sky touched with cloud clinging to the peaks of North Queensland coastal ranges, Vilis and I headed north from Townsville on the Bruce Highway, our destination Daintree Vi...

Castle Hill, Townsville: A Tribute

On January 1, two days after our arrival in this country, Vilis and I walked the road up Castle Hill, stepping over squashed cane toads, noting the grey, dessicated grasses and sparse tree cover of th...

Devils Marbles – Karlu Karlu

In 1872, during the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line in the central Northern Territory, John Lewis wrote of the presence of rounded granite boulders of astonishing size and arrrangement, wh...

Images from the Red Centre

In the thick heat of early morning, I briskly walked Townsville’s Ross River Parkway, my ears readjusting to the sounds of east coast dry tropics bird life, after having focused so intently on t...