Palmetum Park and Dugong Conservation

This is my week to play, to revisit old haunts, to embrace Townsville in a lingering smooch before Vilis and I head to Canberra to spend six days in the nation’s capital, and then are caught up ...

Palmetum Park and Planning for the Daintree and Great Barrier Reef

This morning I awoke with my head filled with images of my Nova Scotia flower beds, and of homegrown, organic fruits and vegetables harvested fresh from my gardens. Perhaps subconsciously inspired by ...

Barking Owls

In mid-afternoon, weary of the unpacking and cleaning that always accompanies the end of a  camping excursion, I cycled the Ross River Parkway to Townsville’s Palmetum Park, hoping to locate th...

Images from Palmetum Park, Townsville

Within Palmetum Park, a pair of peaceful doves pecked at the ground near the bench on which I sat making notes. I had come seeking birds and butterflies, and the doves were most obliging. Eyeing me wa...