From Railway Estate to Rosslea

When I left Richard’s at 5:40 a.m. for my last run/walk in the park near his house, the air was already hot. It grew hotter still when the sun lifted above the horizon, a threatening ball of ora...

Joys of Moving, Townsville Style

Moving days are legendary for complicating life, and ours threw us a few curves, too. The first strike came when we arrived at The Rental Managers at 8:30 a.m. to collect our keys and were told we cou...

Two Serendipitous Finds

Again, possum racket woke me in the night, and I wondered, Where is that python when we need it? The dawn air was soupy, the sun’s incipient rising a faint coral smear in the east.  Members of the ...

Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park, Townsville

A black kite winged over the river park as I ran and walked in early morning, its feathered strokes slow and powerful, its dark tail forked. In a shallow pool of rainwater nudging the path, a slender,...