On Corals Spawning, and Lotus Lilies in Anderson Park Botanical Gardens, Townsville

At daybreak I walked in drizzle, the nagging calls of little corellas picking holes in the air. House sparrows chirped cheerfully, and a female eastern koel – her plumage all speckled brown and barr...

Palmetum Park and Dugong Conservation

This is my week to play, to revisit old haunts, to embrace Townsville in a lingering smooch before Vilis and I head to Canberra to spend six days in the nation’s capital, and then are caught up ...

Cool Aussie Trees

With over 700 species of eucalypts alone, Australia possesses an amazing variety of trees. During our travels, Vilis and I have been enchanted by brilliant white ghost gums clinging to red rock walls ...

A Closer Look

This morning, as I strolled the Ross River Parkway in Townsville, poincianas painted scarlet onto feathery green, and huge, bare sandbars lay exposed in the river. Clouds brooded overhead, only fragil...