To Undara Volcanic National Park, Queensland

West of Townsville, South Pinnacle thrust its bald head of rock against blue sky as Vilis and I drove Herveys Range Road on the first leg of our road trip to Undara Volcanic National Park located appr...

Dingoes, Wild Dogs, and the Australian Dog Fence

When European settlers herded the first flocks of sheep onto Australian grasslands, they encountered a predator that quickly caught on to the fact that the woolly beasts made a good meal.1 That predat...

Kookaburras – Voices of Dawn and a Nation

Hid by tattered shreds of night, laughing kookaburras regaled the coming dawn with maniacal chortles and guffaws masquerading as territorial vocalizations. In the wildness of their sounds, I heard com...

Queensland’s Horticultural Industry and Glimpses into the Life of a Veggie Picker

Since Janis has been working out of Bundaberg as a vegetable picker, Vilis and I have received various intriguing comments from him: “I will never look at a zucchini the same again. We also did ...