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...

Bowling Green Bay National Park: Chunda Bay and Alligator Creek

Intent on making the most of a moody, cloud-ridden morning, I drove to the Cape Cleveland section of Bowling Green Bay National Park south of Townsville and hiked to Chunda Bay. The unposted track off...

Birding at Rowe’s Bay and Queens Gardens, Townsville

As restless as the wild east wind that whipped palm fronds and splashed waves onto the sand of Rowe’s Bay, I prowled the beach and neighbouring Esplanade in search of birds, in search of a few h...

Townsville Cup and Fashions on the Field

After a quick spot of birding at the Belgian Gardens Cemetery, Vilis and I popped into Salvo’s to pick up some duds to wear to the Townsville Cup. No ordinary event, the Cup comes with dress rul...