Burdekin Falls Dam and Lake Dalrymple, Queensland

I had read and heard that the Burdekin Dam south of Townsville is a good area for birding (particularly for sightings of emus, ground cuckoo-shrikes, and spotted bowerbirds), so I suggested to Vilis y...

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...

TRBOC Ross Lake Cruise

Birding and breakfast were the orders of the morning, since the Townsville Region Bird Observers Club had organized a cruise on Ross Lake and Ross River to be followed by breakfast on the shore of the...