AUSTRALIA | Friday, 24 Jan 2020 | Views [247]
AUSTRALIA IS KNOWN FOR ITS STRANGE ANIMALS and none is more strange than the platypus. It appears to be an evolutionary afterthought, a hodgepodge made from spare parts — the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver and the feet of an otter.... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 23 Jan 2020 | Views [273]
CHAMBERS WILDLIFE RAINFOREST LODGE certainly lives up to its name. It is in the forest smack-dab inside Crater Lakes National Park on the Atherton Tablelands, and, yes, it rains. Our cabin is smaller than some of other places we’ve ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 18 Jan 2020 | Views [479]
FOLKS SAY, “IT’S NOT THE HEAT, IT’S THE HUMIDITY.” Cooktown has both heat and humidity— in abundance! — and a bit of rain to keep things interesting. But not much else, at least not the birds we were seeking.... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 13 Jan 2020 | Views [249]
PORT DOUGLAS IS PROBABLY MY FAVORITE TOWN in Queensland. From the cute main street to the glitzy marina and tropical Four Mile Beach, it is nearly perfect. And Lychee Tree Holiday Apartments is a wonderful place to stay, thanks to hosts, ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 10 Jan 2020 | Views [272]
WHILE VICTORIA AND NSW ARE IN FLAMES, it’s the beginning of “The Wet” here in northern Queensland. Granted, the lakes and billabongs are still low and the waterfalls are mere trickles compared to what they will be later in the ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 6 Jan 2020 | Views [425]
THE BRISBANE AIRPORT SEEMED FILLED WITH Queensland Fire and Rescue troops on their way to Victoria where the bushfires are out of control, just like Victoria's firefighters recently helped with Queensland's blazes. The seasonal “Wet”... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 1 Jan 2020 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 31 Dec 2019 | Views [248]
WE ARE ENDING THE YEAR IN THE BRISBANE at the Balmoral Queenslander B&B. For a straight guy, Brian has done a wonderful job of decorating this traditional “Queenslander.” We are 20 minutes from the airport and within walking ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 30 Dec 2019 | Views [234]
LAKE SAMPSONVALE REMINDED US OF FLORIDA’S Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge yesterday morning but instead of crossing the Sanibel Island Bridge we had to walk through the Sampsonvale Cemetery. No ghosts, though. Silhouettes ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 21 Dec 2019 | Views [232]
AVOCETS ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE BIRDS. I have taken so many photos of American avocets that Connie has placed a moratorium on any more. But Red-necked Avocets are a different story and today I took dozens of shots of hundreds of avocets, ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 19 Dec 2019 | Views [265]
ON OUR FIRST TRIP TO AUSTRALIA BACK IN ’04 we drove around New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia for 3 months in an old Ford Falcon and camped in a tent. And we loved it. In 2012 we graduated to a series of Toyota campervans ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 7 Dec 2019 | Views [421]
WYNDOVER MOUNTAIN RETREAT IS A NEW LISTING on booking.com. We are their first guests — but certainly won’t be the last! Located in Beechmont Queensland, Wyndover is thirteen kilometers from Lamington National Park as the currawong ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 3 Dec 2019 | Photo Gallery
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Monday, 25 Nov 2019 | Views [278]
PANASESA ISLAND IS FOR ADULTS. It’s the kind of island you would buy if you could buy and island. Which is exactly what businessman/conservationist Ian Gowrie-Smith decided. Not one to do things halfway, he bought the entire ... Read more >
PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Sunday, 24 Nov 2019 | Views [273]
KIRIWINI ISLAND WAS AS CHARMING a place as you could imagine—like something out of Tales of the South Pacific . Just as in days of yore when the islands were visited by whaling ships, a ship in the harbor is a big deal for Kiriwini. ... Read more >
PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Saturday, 23 Nov 2019 | Views [266]
CONNIE HAS BEEN TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA before on a birding trip. I begged off on that one so Maasdam ’s stop in Alotau, our only stop on the "mainland," brought me one country nearer to Connie’s 167.
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Friday, 22 Nov 2019 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 19 Nov 2019 | Views [223]
WE’VE BEEN TO BRISSY BEFORE and will be back after this cruise, so yesterday was just a chance to stretch our legs a bit. The Brisbane City Cat is the best transportation deal ever. For a few bucks the water taxi catamaran whisked ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 17 Nov 2019 | Views [225]
WITH ALL YOUR NEEDS ATTENDED TO AND NO REAL decisions to make you soon find yourself wholly absorbed with the few tiny matters that are actually at your discretion—whether to have your morning shower now or in a while, whether to get up from ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 16 Nov 2019 | Views [231]
WE'RE OFF AGAIN—OUR FIFTH CRUISE OF THE YEAR. We are on Holland America's Maasdam again—third time's a charm they say—this time up the coast of Oz to Papua New Guinea and back.
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