Hiking Magnetic Island: Northern Beaches, The Forts Track, and Koalas

A word of advice to all sleep-loving campers: do not pitch your tent at the end of the campground nearest the bar. After an evening flayed by mega-decibel music followed by piercing conversations, and...

Tyto Wetlands and Tully Sugar Mill Tour

At first light, Vilis and I headed north on the Bruce Highway for a spot of early morning birding at Ingham’s Tyto Wetlands, after which we continued north to Tully for a tour of the Tully Sugar mil...

Smoke on the Queensland Coast: Bushfires and Prescribed Burns

Wind which this morning bore a cool bite ripened into flirting warmth by the time I walked to Bicentennial Park in late afternoon. The Ross River ran high, its banks barricading tidal inflow, its twis...

Australian Chamber Music Festival

After breakfast I wandered along beside the golf course and into Bicentennial Park, soaking up the dry tropics birdlife so different from the rainforest birds at Lake Paluma, yet endearingly familiar ...