20 travel ideas for 2020
A new year means new travel plans. I’m busy making mine, and hope you are too! After reviewing my past year, and the past decade, I found…
Why every week is ‘Bird Week’ at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat
“Bir…bir…!” The half-formed word is accompanied by a chubby little finger, pointing to the sky. My grandson’s first word – other than those that mean his…
Meet the quokkas of Rottnest Island
If it’s good enough for actors Chris Hemsworth and Margot Robbie and tennis champion Roger Federer, it’s good enough for me. On an overnight trip to…
A bird in the hand at O’Reilly’s
There’s a little bit of the “twitcher” in me. Some of you might understand what I mean by that; for the uninitiated it means that I…
A green and graceful idyll
In a flurry of black and white, a small flock of magpie geese rise gracefully into the sky, surprised from the water as our boat skims…
Butterflies flutter by in Kuranda
The caterpillar does all the work, the butterfly gets all the publicity. How true that is! This quote was pinned on the wall at the Australian…
The fabulous flora and fauna of Fraser Island
Flowers, feathers and fins…I love a good bit of alliteration! Fraser Island provided all three on my recent visit, but another ‘f’ that I was hoping…
Helping with whale tail research
Whale tails are like fingerprints. Each one is unique. And the classic shot that every photographer likes to get is a whale’s tail in the air…
The wonders of whale watching on Australia’s Fraser Island
Some call it the “humpback highway”. Australia’s east coast is a migration path for humpback whales as they make their way from Antarctica to the warm…
Meet Australia’s unique wildlife
Unique and extraordinary. Two words that journalists try to avoid, because so rarely are they used accurately. But – hot on the heels of the interesting…
A Glass Half Full 