Platypus

Light cloud blanketed the sky over Townsville as I walked within Bicentennial Park early this morning, listing all the birds I saw and heard. As I did so, it occurred to me that Australia’s bird...

On Blogging and Poincianas

Writing this blog is forever a game of catch-up. Vilis’s and my recent adventures in the desert, Daintree, and on the great Barrier Reef punched big holes in my writing time, but provided exciti...

Golden Orb Web Spider

Australia is home to an impressive array of spiders, some of them, like the Sydney funnel web spider, dangerously venomous to humans. Golden orb web spiders, also called golden orb weavers, on first e...

Birding at Inkerman Station

An hour after sunrise, Vilis and I set off in convoy with other members of the Townsville Region Bird Observers Club, heading south from Townsville past Bowling Green Bay National Park and into the co...