Rainforest Scenes from Paluma, North Queensland

Since this was Janis’s second-last day in Australia, Vilis and I took him to our favourite haunt, the rainforest at Paluma, a tiny village set atop the Paluma Range in North Queensland, a mere 8...

The Lure of Paluma

There’s something about the rainforests of Paluma that draws us back again and again. The wild tangles of vegetation. The vines that Vilis loves. The suite of birds so different from those of To...

Paluma Range National Park: Paluma

Clear sky, mellow cricket songs, and the rousing “chow-chow-chows” and rollicking warbles of a male chowchilla blasting at high volume in the rainforest behind our Paluma Dreaming unit gre...

Paluma Rainforest, North Queensland

By 9:15 a.m., Vilis and I were on our way to the highland village of Paluma and its rainforest 65 kilometres north of Townsville and 22 kilometres inland. Highway A1, the Bruce Highway, carried us nor...