Dry Tropics Winter Day and Images from Western Australia

Western Australia, Day 10 Townsville: A wedding party stood beneath the majestic rain trees at the corner of the Townsville Golf Club in late afternoon. The white-clad bride and her groom were small, ...

Owl Pellets to Monitor Threatened Mammals, and Aussie Country Burgers

Western Australia, Day 9 Townsville: At midday, while cycling to James Cook University to attend a seminar, I passed a qartet of silent galahs foraging on the golf course and rode beneath flocks of ri...

Australian Magpies and Yakabindi, Western Australia

Western Australia, Day 2 Townsville: Cloud hung over the city, and cool winds buffeted the fronds of palms shading our yard. Beneath the palm canopies, my wee Aussie garden is gasping for sunshine. Th...

Sorry Day

This is a brave country, owning up to its past, to the injustices it has meted out. On February 13, 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologized, on behalf of the Australian federal parliament,...