Burdekin Views

In early morning, Vilis and I drove the Bruce Highway south from Townsville into that collage of vividly-green sugarcane plantations, tawny grazing lands, and dark, forested ranges of low peaks that c...

Falling Palm Leaves and Tropical Ramblings

In Bicentennial Park this morning, tiny biting midges attacked me with their pinpoints of fire, leaving my skin dotted with red splotches far more obvious than the minute insects that caused them. Mos...

Cassowary Country

In the darkness of 5 a.m., Vilis and I rose from our bed, packed gear for an outing, and drove north from Townsville on the Bruce Highway, our destination the cassowary hotspot centred on Mission Beac...

Lotus Lily and Australian Water Lilies

Early light swept sound and colour into Anderson Park Botanical Gardens, where insects rasped out rough songs in clumps of bamboo that stood like gigantic sheaves of grain, and where lotus lilies and ...