North Queensland vs. the Yukon Territory

In the new light of 5:20 a.m., I strode toward the Sunrise Shopping Centre and its red metal Australia Post box to mail a pair of  letters to Canada. Milky-blue, cumulus clouds billowed high to the s...

The Human Scene Down Under

Bird song from the Rosslea streets was like musack filtering into our rental house, my mind subconsciously identifying the instruments in the avian orchestra. Even less focussed than yesterday due to ...

Castle Hill, Townsville: A Tribute

On January 1, two days after our arrival in this country, Vilis and I walked the road up Castle Hill, stepping over squashed cane toads, noting the grey, dessicated grasses and sparse tree cover of th...

Ross River Bush Garden Birds

Realizing that it had been well over a month since I’d explored the Ross River Bush Gardens, I cycled to that planting of native species alongside the Ross River in Townsville early this morning...