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...

Artsy Australian Bark

There are Canadian trees that tear at my soul – white pines in Canadian Shield country, their flaring, wind-swept boughs dancing power against stormy skies; paper birches, the beauties of the boreal...

Mount Field and Styx Valley Giants, Tasmania

Dawn at the campground in Mount Field National Park presented a cacophony of sounds – the mad laughter of kookaburras, the “kussicks” of green rosellas and squawking harangues of sulphur...

Nelson Falls, Donaghy’s Hill, and Lake St. Clair, Tasmania

In rain and the dim light after dawn, Vilis and I departed from Rosebery after availing ourselves of a free breakfast of cold cereal and hot toast courtesy of the Top Pub. Heading south toward Queenst...