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After months of the local banksia trees showing only their old scruffy looking seed pods ~ Today, after a lot of rain, I noticed a couple of beautiful fresh lemon yellow banksia flowers blooming 🙂 The genus Banksia is named after the botanist, Sir Joseph Banks who accompanied James Cook on the 1768-1771 voyage to Australia. […]
Grass trees are found in a range of climates across Australia, from WA to the NT and down to Tasmania. I photographed the group of grass trees above on Stradbroke Island, east of Brisbane, Queensland, but I have equally enjoyed their presence near Perth in WA and in the hinterland to Byron Bay in northern NSW. […]
Duck Billed Platypus are shy creatures, so seeing one in the flesh when in the Australian outback makes it all the more remarkable and special! When I lived in northern NSW I’d go down to the creek in the early morning or late evening with the children and we’d stand on the wooden bridge scanning the […]
For about 4 years I worked in mineral exploration as a geological draughts-person. Working on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert I was contracting to a company in Perth, Western Australia, who saw the light in sending someone out into the field with the reconnaissance team, who could plot the grids and interpolate the […]
