Notes from The Common

In the freshness of a winter morning, I ran in shorts and singlet beside the golf course and into Bicentennial Park, revelling in the cool air and the sounds of a North Queensland dawn. Winter here is...

The Lure of Paluma

There’s something about the rainforests of Paluma that draws us back again and again. The wild tangles of vegetation. The vines that Vilis loves. The suite of birds so different from those of To...

Kookaburra Trapeze Flights

In the cool freshness of early morning, I explored Anderson Park Botanical Gardens. I found bush stone-curlews skulking beneath a sausage tree and observed two laughing kookaburras repeatedly swoop in...

Barking Owls

In mid-afternoon, weary of the unpacking and cleaning that always accompanies the end of a  camping excursion, I cycled the Ross River Parkway to Townsville’s Palmetum Park, hoping to locate th...