Wallaman Falls, Girringun National Park, Queensland

Under a mid-morning mix of cloud and sun, Vilis, Janis, and I drove north from Townsville through open savannah woodland and fields of sugarcane to Ingham, and then headed west toward Girringun Nation...

Australian Palms

In fresh, positively cool morning air, a quartet of rainbow lorikeets raced across blue sky, with sunlight painting their rainbow colours vivid shades of green, red, blue, orange, and yellow. They, li...

Queensland’s Wet Tropics

In brilliant morning sunshine, I cycled into Annandale and crossed the pedestrian bridge at Aplin’s Weir to loop back to our home. The parkway lawns and the landscape of savannah woodland surrou...

Paluma Range National Park: Paluma

Clear sky, mellow cricket songs, and the rousing “chow-chow-chows” and rollicking warbles of a male chowchilla blasting at high volume in the rainforest behind our Paluma Dreaming unit gre...