Backcountry from Undara Volcanic National Park to Ingham

In the darkness before dawn, kookaburras guffawed a ribald greeting to the day, their wild laughter soon joined by the medodic questioning of pied currawongs. While breakfasting on hot, sweet porridge...

Undara Volcanic National Park: Kalkani Volcano and Undara Lava Tubes

After an early morning encore visit to Hundred Mile Swamp – the wetland alive with bird song and macropods, yet serene – we devoted the remainder of the day to Undara’s volcanic features. A ...

To Undara Volcanic National Park, Queensland

West of Townsville, South Pinnacle thrust its bald head of rock against blue sky as Vilis and I drove Herveys Range Road on the first leg of our road trip to Undara Volcanic National Park located appr...

Australian Pines and the Dinosaur Tree

At home in Nova Scotia, a windbreak of eastern white pines borders my yard, the trees having grown from sturdy saplings into robust giants during the nearly twenty years my family has lived on the pro...