Pallarenda Beach, Townsville

I’m an early riser. My alarm beeps into the darkness at 5 a.m. every morning, rain or shine. Vilis, however, is an evening person, so for him to rise at 5:30 a.m. two days in a row on the weekend wa...

Mount Louisa, Townsville

Last evening, the Townsville mountains and hills painted clean, black shapes against a darkening sky washed with gold and orange by the setting sun. This morning, in the fresh light of blue sky and ea...

Australia’s Threatened Frogs

It’s a comforting thought that we sometimes need very little to inspire us to carry on. This morning, it was the calls of peaceful doves sounding like muted horns of a hundred sentinels announci...

Australia: One Competitive Country

In the darkness of 5:40 a.m., the air’s damp warmth felt too close, too thick. Haunting, broken calls of bush stone-curlews rang out over the sodden golf course, and in the distance, laughing kookab...