Birding at Alice Springs

This morning, I ran before sunrise, spotting tracks of white-tailed deer, ruffed grouse, deer mice, and red fox embossed on thin snow. The -16°C air enveloped me in still calm before a winter storm f...

Images from the Red Centre

In the thick heat of early morning, I briskly walked Townsville’s Ross River Parkway, my ears readjusting to the sounds of east coast dry tropics bird life, after having focused so intently on t...

Alice Springs to Mount Isa

At 5:50 a.m., ABC Alice Springs reported the refreshing temperature of 8°C. Tree silhouettes formed black lace against the deep blue of clear, desert sky as Vilis and I drove away from The Alice, beg...

Making Camel Tracks in the Desert

Taking photographs from the back of a camel is no easy task, as Vilis discovered this morning when he and I toured the desert south of Alice Springs by camel. I discovered that focusing binoculars fro...