Cycads

Until I began exploring Australia, cycads were mysterious plants that grew only in exotic places and belonged to the age of the dinosaurs. However, here in Oz, they’re planted in gardens and gro...

Lotus Lily and Australian Water Lilies

Early light swept sound and colour into Anderson Park Botanical Gardens, where insects rasped out rough songs in clumps of bamboo that stood like gigantic sheaves of grain, and where lotus lilies and ...

Bowling Green Bay National Park: Alligator Creek and Cungulla Beach

Here, there be dragons – small dragons to be sure, but dragons nonetheless. Australia is home to 70 species of dragons, which are lizards belonging to the reptilian family Agamidae.1 Of these, the T...

Bowling Green Bay National Park: Chunda Bay and Alligator Creek

Intent on making the most of a moody, cloud-ridden morning, I drove to the Cape Cleveland section of Bowling Green Bay National Park south of Townsville and hiked to Chunda Bay. The unposted track off...