Thorsborne Trail: Mulligan Falls to Zoe Bay, Hinchinbrook Island

After light rain in the night, the rainforest at Mulligan Falls exuded moisture, creating a steamy atmosphere that pervaded our clothes and senses. Sweat beaded from our skin even before we began hiki...

Thorsborne Trail: George Point to Mulligan Falls, Hinchinbrook Island

At 12:30 p.m., Vilis and I boarded a small, covered ferry that pounded away from Dungeness over murky, green-brown water bordered by mangroves. Grey cloud hung over our destination of Hinchinbrook Isl...

Preparing for Hinchinbrook Island and the Thorsborne Trail

With our backpacking excursion of the Thorsborne Trail on North Queensland’s Hinchinbrook Island scheduled to commence next Thursday, we spent today dealing with the nuts and bolts of planning. ...

Rainforest Scenes from Paluma, North Queensland

Since this was Janis’s second-last day in Australia, Vilis and I took him to our favourite haunt, the rainforest at Paluma, a tiny village set atop the Paluma Range in North Queensland, a mere 8...