Maintaining Social Authority in a New Land

While stretching on the living room floor, I noticed – in a small triangle of faintly-lit sky bordered by roof and trees – black flying foxes streaming past overhead, heralded eastward by the dawn...

Toad Day Out in Townsville

Green frogs really do occur in toilets, as I discovered this morning upon finding one in our toilet at dawn. I saw a dark, moving blob in the water and flicked on the light switch. There it was, looki...

Wineglass Bay/Hazards Beach Circuit and Narawntapu National Park, Tasmania

Under a dull sky promising rain, Vilis and I broke camp at Richardson’s Beach and drove to the trailhead of the Wineglass Bay Track, which is also the start of the Wineglass Bay/Hazards Circuit....

Salamanca Market and Freycinet National Park, Tasmania

In lifting darkness, we drove from Fortescue Bay toward Hobart, startling Tasmanian macropods into bounding quickly into vegetation alongside Tasman National Park’s gravel access road. Out on th...