Birding and breakfast were the orders of the morning, since the Townsville Region Bird Observers Club had organized a cruise on Ross Lake and Ross River to be followed by breakfast on the shore of the...
In early morning, Vilis and I drove the Bruce Highway south from Townsville into that collage of vividly-green sugarcane plantations, tawny grazing lands, and dark, forested ranges of low peaks that c...
In Bicentennial Park this morning, tiny biting midges attacked me with their pinpoints of fire, leaving my skin dotted with red splotches far more obvious than the minute insects that caused them. Mos...
In the darkness of 5 a.m., Vilis and I rose from our bed, packed gear for an outing, and drove north from Townsville on the Bruce Highway, our destination the cassowary hotspot centred on Mission Beac...