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I’m a great believer in slow travel – Both when on the road, and when at home! I get a real thrill discovering what’s in my back yard and seeing it through travellers’ eyes – So I’m always taken aback when meeting up with local folk, and the topic of recreation comes up and I can’t […]
It was a perfect Queensland autumn morning in the Bay off Brisbane. After weeks of rain, the excitement of seeing a sky of blue and a sea sparkling like diamonds had me out of the door and off on a morning walk in the woods before settling down to my day job – Hand drawing […]
The sun was rising over the horizon as I flipped the switch for the kettle. Unzipping my backpack, I popped in a couple of mangoes, some strawberries and (for a holiday treat) two apricot danish pastries and fruit juice. Downing cups of tea, we slipped on life-jackets, hats, and with sunnies atop, headed out to grab […]
Where do you feel the most content? If you had to name a place or an environment that you feel most at peace in – what surrounds would you choose to put yourself? Urban or country? While cities have their attractions and beauty in a contrived way, nature can rarely be topped – Ask someone […]
The Curtain Fig tree, on the Atherton Tableland in northern Queensland, is an impressive and unique sight! Formed by a little seed being deposited in a nook (or cranny) high in a host tree, roots sprouted and made their way to the soil far, far below. Embedded in the ground and enriched by the soil’s nutrients it […]
Box Forest Track, a 10.6km circuit. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve posted photo essays from our visit up to the rainforest of Green Mountain in Lamington National Park, SE Queensland ~ Here are links to: The 4.6km walk we did down to Moran’s Falls and The lovely sunset and sunrise that we admired from O’Reilley’s. On the second […]
Australia Photo ~ Swamp Paperbark Trees, Australia Paperbark trees are so quintessentially Australian, with their peeling trunks. There’s a swampy area I walk past most days. This week I actually stopped to photograph it 🙂
The Australian rainforest is an absolute delight. Last week we took off for a couple of days to go up into the rainforest of the Lamington National Park on the Queensland/NSW border. We walked the Morans Falls track, just 4.6km on our first day. The path takes you down through a subtropical rainforest of booyongs and brush box adorned […]
In the sand dunes that back the beach, it amazes me that anything can grow ~ This is an Island Beach No nutrients in the soil, and such good drainage no water will hold between the fine white grains of sand – Yet, these coastal plants defy the possibility producing luscious yellow blooms. Keeping close to […]
Australia Photo ~ Epiphytes ~ Birds Nest Tree Ferns in the rainforest Epiphytes are plants that use another plant or object as a host upon which to grow ~ Their roots are not therefore in the soil so nutrients are derived from the air, the rain, and sometimes an accumulation of leaf debris. These Birds […]
