To Atherton Tablelands, North Queensland

Morning light lured me beyond the house walls, as though inviting me to dance with the dawn. I strode quickly to Bicentennial Park, spotting a sacred kingfisher sunning on a wire. Within the park, a m...

Possum Tidbits and a Blue Tiger

A full moon rode high in the sky this morning, as it did last evening when I strolled in the dark past the golf course and then alongside Bowen Road, looking and listening for nightlife. I spotted a c...

Tasman and Cook

Caught in a huge breath of fresh air and cool, sweet dawn, I cycled hard past the golf course and through Bicentennial Park, revelling in this long-awaited relief from North Queensland heat. A couple ...

Best of Times

While darkness still lay thick on Townsville, I rose from sleep and began to systematically clean and tidy the entire house, like a male great bowerbird straightening his bower and rearranging its dec...