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...

Needing a Python

I need a python. A big one. And a wild one. I want it to assume residence on my roof and eat every possum within sight or smell so I can sleep. The past few nights in our rental house have been like l...

Birding on Townsville’s Esplanade, and More Wildlife in Western Australia

Western Australia, Day 17 Townsville: In early morning, the water of Rowe’s Bay washed gently in among mangroves growing adjacent to the Esplanade in north Townsville. Brilliant sun lit the long, pa...

Private Lives of Birds, and Camera Traps in Western Australia

Western Australia, Day 13 Townsville: In brisk, cool air under a clear sky, I again strode to Bicentennial Park after dawn, marvelling at the chorus of bird song that emanated from street trees and th...