Birding at Bundaberg and Bargara

Needing an antidote to yesterday’s long hours spent cramped in a car,  Vilis and I strolled for much of the morning in Bundaberg’s Queens Park adjacent to the Burnett River. Sunshine wash...

To Bundaberg and East Bundy Backpackers

Frustrated with five weeks of unsuccessful job hunting in Townsville and via contacting cattle stations and fruit and vegetable farms throughout eastern Queensland, Janis decided yesterday to go the r...

A First (and Last) Taste of Cricket

Until this afternoon, I knew nothing about cricket. I had listened to excited ABC sports reporters refer to centuries and overs and wickets, but hadn’t a clue what those terms meant. Today, howe...

On Twitching

I am very myopic, but yesterday morning I went walking in the Ross River Parkway without  my glasses. Why? Because I was, quite truthfully, tired of looking for birds. In particular, I was tired of l...