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We had an almighty storm roll in. So dramatic… The palm trees were battered, trees were brought down, all resulting in no power for 3 days Wind and Rain Wind and rain pounded the house blasting water up under the eaves, where it regrouped into rivulets reappearing as huge splodgy droplets on the inside of […]
5 Families of Lizards in Australia There are five main families of lizard in Australia making up over 500 species ~ Geckos Skinks Goannas or Monitors Legless or Snake Lizards and the Dragons. Geckos Geckos are seen the most frequently if you inhabit a tropical home in Australia, as with sticky padded feet they run up and […]
When on a road trip in Oz, there are certain Australian icons one not only hopes to see, but expects to see. Like classic Australian road signs not encountered in other parts of the world… To heritage icons relating to European settlement, such as station homesteads established by pioneering explorers… …and their introduced farming livestock […]
Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps) I so nearly trod on this poor little chap! We’d stopped for breakfast on the way to Standley Chasm. I was walking through the leaf litter to get a photo of our motorhome (camperbus!) when as I moved forward there was a rustling movement underfoot! Yikes! What was I about to […]
Australia Photo Essay: Turtles and Dugongs through the eyes of the Torres Strait Islanders. The above artwork by Dennis Nona (2010) is entitled Thurr (Tracks of the turtle). The turtle leaves the water and lumbers against gravity up the beach to lay its eggs. She digs a deep hole where she lays them for […]
Australia Photo ~ Bush Stone Curlews, Queensland, Australia If you hear a mournful wailing sound in the night, these are the birds responsible for the eerie call. Curlews are nocturnal ground feeding birds, which during the day shelter where their plummage will best camouflage them. This family of birds have taken to resting in the grass just outside our […]
Australia Photo ~ Kookaburra This Kookaburra flew ahead of me as I walked through the shady glady gum tree woodland this week. “Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, Eating all the gum drops he can see. Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra Gay your life must be!” “Kookaburra sits on the electric wire, Jumping up and down, […]
Australia Photo ~ Carpet Python Carpet Python digesting dinner This was spotted just outside the loos at Wollumbin in northern NSW, Australia “Yikes” 😉
I was asked by the Got Saga team “What 5 places I’d take a visitor to in my ‘home town” ~ If you come to the South Moreton Bay islands in the Bay off Brisbane, Australia these are my favourite local places that I’ll share with you… Mangroves and sea eagles ~ The inter-tidal zone at the bottom of […]
I’ve only ever seen a koala in the wild twice. Once in a beautiful piece of eucalyptus forest in northern NSW where tucked high up in the fork of a tree between trunk and branch the koala was perched, or was it wedged? 😉 And the second time was on an horrendously busy road in an outer […]
