Bush Portraits II

Early this morning I strode past the rich green of rain-fed vegetation on the Townsville Golf Club beneath dark periwinkle clouds decorated with tufts of white. From Bicentennial Park, I watched the t...

The Long View

While Vilis tackled Mount Douglas – a steep, savannah-cloaked hill behind James Cook University – on his mountain bike, I again browsed through old blog posts, this time selecting scenic shots to ...

Home from Western Australia

This morning, the hunt was on. A great bowerbird slowly swallowed a spider with a distended, grey abdomen. A white-bellied cuckoo-shrike devoured one insect and immediately flew into an adjacent tree ...

Smart Dingoes

Townsville: Warm wind rustled palm fronds in our yard and blew dead fronds slithering down onto the ground where they landed with resounding thuds. It seemed a harbinger of something new, some change ...