Bushwalking the Many Peaks Range

In the fresh light after dawn, Vilis and I set out to hike the Many Peaks Range, that short line of steep-sided, conical hills to the north of Townsville that we’d seen so often from various van...

Wombats, and the Movie ‘The Tracker’

While Townsville stewed in morning showers and downpours, I continued catching up blog posts from our Victoria/Tasmania trip and investigated wombats. Last evening, I signed out two wombat-related pri...

A Confusion of Seasons

At 6 a.m., my bicycle lights flashed white and red into the Queensland twilight as I rode to the fitness track. There, I sat up and chinned up, and swung and rotated hips while dawn swept in with clea...

Toad Day Out in Townsville

Green frogs really do occur in toilets, as I discovered this morning upon finding one in our toilet at dawn. I saw a dark, moving blob in the water and flicked on the light switch. There it was, looki...