Roos and their Rellies

Of all Australia’s iconic animals, kangaroos are arguably the best-known around the world, their popularity perhaps enhanced by that white, stylized depiction of a roo painted on the red tails o...

Koala

In the dim light of 5:10 a.m., a golfer hit practice balls on the Townsville Golf Club, his face so screened by the receeding darkness that I was unable to ascertain if he was young or old. Beneath th...

Aussie Mammal Mugshots

I stole quietly into Townsville’s tropical dawn, the songs of a brush cuckoo and olive-backed oriole drawing me forth, the two vocalizations so different yet now so familiar – the brush cuckoo...

North Queensland vs. the Yukon Territory

In the new light of 5:20 a.m., I strode toward the Sunrise Shopping Centre and its red metal Australia Post box to mail a pair of  letters to Canada. Milky-blue, cumulus clouds billowed high to the s...