Lake Paluma

In clear sunlight and cool, upland air, grey-headed robins inspected Vilis’s and my campsite while we ate a hot porridge breakfast. Operatic chowchillas sang resonating melodies in the rainforest, a...

To Lake Paluma, North Queensland

In mid-morning, grey cloud hung over Herveys Range as Vilis and I traveled west from Townsville toward Star River and the turn-off for mysteriously-titled Hidden Valley and, farther to the north, Lake...

Climate Change and Australian Beer

After dawn, I ran a dozen kilometres beneath an overcast sky, wishing for the cool freshness of days gone by. Urged on by the Ross River Knights and the shrill squawks of rainbow lorikeets, which toda...

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...