In an earlier post, I discussed the enigma of Australia’s disappearing frog species and the discovery that these disappearances were linked with an infectious skin disease called chytridiomycosi...
I had read and heard that the Burdekin Dam south of Townsville is a good area for birding (particularly for sightings of emus, ground cuckoo-shrikes, and spotted bowerbirds), so I suggested to Vilis y...
With our backpacking excursion of the Thorsborne Trail on North Queensland’s Hinchinbrook Island scheduled to commence next Thursday, we spent today dealing with the nuts and bolts of planning. ...
Since this was Janis’s second-last day in Australia, Vilis and I took him to our favourite haunt, the rainforest at Paluma, a tiny village set atop the Paluma Range in North Queensland, a mere 8...