A Confusion of Seasons

At 6 a.m., my bicycle lights flashed white and red into the Queensland twilight as I rode to the fitness track. There, I sat up and chinned up, and swung and rotated hips while dawn swept in with clea...

Maintaining Social Authority in a New Land

While stretching on the living room floor, I noticed – in a small triangle of faintly-lit sky bordered by roof and trees – black flying foxes streaming past overhead, heralded eastward by the dawn...

Toad Day Out in Townsville

Green frogs really do occur in toilets, as I discovered this morning upon finding one in our toilet at dawn. I saw a dark, moving blob in the water and flicked on the light switch. There it was, looki...

Tassie Bushwalk Awards

Today, I seemed to be caught in some netherworld between Tasmania and Queensland, a world of yawning, of washing load after load of camping laundry, of restocking the kitchen with food, of sifting thr...