Bushwalking Alligator Creek Track

Nearly five months after Vilis and I bushwalked the first few kilometres of Alligator Creek Track under blistering sun in early February, vowing we would return and complete the hike in winter, we, al...

Bush Stone-curlew Beauty

Today, for the first time, I became frustrated with rainbow lorikeets. There were simply too many racing across  the sky above Townsville. They flocked into flowering gums and paperbarks, their shril...

Townsville Winter Morning

It is said that a picture speaks a thousand words; therefore, I let this picture speak for me. I title it simply Winter Morning in Townsville.   Today’s birds: Australian magpies, rainbow l...

Shelley Beach, Townsville

With the cool air of an early winter morning wafting over us, Vilis, Janis, and I left the Kia in the Bald Rock car park in the Townsville Town Common Conservation Park and hiked south around the west...