Aussie Avian Portraits III

In still-dim light just past dawn, I cycled the parkway to Aplin’s Weir, revelling in my freedom of motion and in the chorus of birdsong awakening the city of Townsville. Magpie geese honked nas...

Spinifex

In February, I listened to an ABC radio documentary about the Simpson Desert, in which Dr. Chris Dickman of Sydney University discussed the pivotal role spinifex – a spiky, slow-growing, clump-formi...

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...

Bushwalking More of West MacDonnell National Park, Northern Territory

Early this morning, while Vilis hiked to Ormiston Gorge Lookout and then to the creek to retrieve his hat, forgotten there last evening, I wandered the campground and bits of the Larapinta Trail (its ...