From Aplins Weir, Townsville

While the east coast of Australia awaited the arrival of the tsunami generated by yesterday’s Chilean mega-earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale, Vilis and I cycled to Aplins Weir and beyond...

Anderson Park Botanical Garden & Ross River Parkway

This morning, driven by some inner need to walk, I devoted two hours to an excursion to the Anderson Park Botanical Gardens, followed by another two hours in the Ross River Parkway. After yesterday af...

After the Monsoon Low

The sunshine that greeted us this morning was unexpected, as though no storm harbouring such a furious deluge of moisture as that we experienced yesterday would give way to anything, even the sun. Yet...