Toad Day Out in Townsville

Green frogs really do occur in toilets, as I discovered this morning upon finding one in our toilet at dawn. I saw a dark, moving blob in the water and flicked on the light switch. There it was, looki...

Mount Louisa, Townsville

Last evening, the Townsville mountains and hills painted clean, black shapes against a darkening sky washed with gold and orange by the setting sun. This morning, in the fresh light of blue sky and ea...

Notes on Idalia and Townsville’s Homeless

Two things surprised me this morning while cycling in the parkway. The first was a tree snake that fell out of a tree and flopped onto the grass right beside me in Idalia. The second was a homeless ma...

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...