Australian Mammal Extinctions

There is a simple answer to the question of what caused so many Australian mammals to go extinct. People. More specifically, it was hunting by people and by three non-native carnivores that humans int...

Cotters Market and Geckos

This morning, the Townsville Golf Club course glistened silver with dew, as though an endless bolt of shimmering fabric had been draped over the gentle hills and valleys during the night and left to a...

Pallarenda Beach, Townsville

I’m an early riser. My alarm beeps into the darkness at 5 a.m. every morning, rain or shine. Vilis, however, is an evening person, so for him to rise at 5:30 a.m. two days in a row on the weekend wa...

A Day at JCU

In mid-morning, I cycled to James Cook University, with heat radiating off the bitumen path in the Ross River Parkway and the river itself throwing me rich, wet smells. At the uni, I wandered the camp...