Paluma Rainforest Encore

At 7 a.m., Vilis and I hit the road for the rainforest village of Paluma about 80 kilometres northwest of Townsville, having decided to explore the rainforest tracks that we didn’t tackle on January...

Australia: A ‘Megadiverse’ Country

By morning, the mesmerizing clouds of last evening had disintegrated into a rumpled grey roof over the Townsville sauna. Darkness still clung to the streets at 5:40 a.m., so I held my watch up close t...

Ross Lake Cruise, Townsville

Thunder rumbled overhead, and Mount Stuart was capped by leaden clouds when Vilis and I arrived at Ross Park at 1:45 p.m. A few minutes later, the tour operators for our Lake Ross cruise drove up. The...

Alligator Creek, Bowling Green Bay National Park

With good weather in the forecast for today, Vilis and I decided an excursion was in order. To that end, we headed south from Townsville along the Queensland coast on the Bruce Highway and arrived at ...