We expected to see big fish. But, like so much in life, the unexpected became a highlight. At Ningaloo Reef, the little fish are a delight. Our friends at Exmouth Dive and Whalesharks always get swimmers in to the water for a snorkel on the reef first thing in the...
All about Spot-tailed (Tiger) Quolls, their threats and how to help them. What are quolls? Quolls are native marsupial carnivores, related to Tasmanian Devils, Antechinus, Phascogales and more distantly, to the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger). They are some of the largest...
High on a mossy branch, the bird watched me bumbling about on the rainforest track below. The light in a far North Queensland tropical rainforest is both brilliant and muted. You walk in near darkness, peering into shadows, to be dazzled by a beam of pure white...
by Janine Duffy (most pics by James Boettcher) The bizarre, brassy and beautiful mammals of Australia’s north Queensland. There are many more mammals in Australia than most Aussies ever see. If you want to see some of our strangest ones, there’s no better place than...
At first glance, the beaches of Ningaloo Western Australia look too clean. Sterile. The sand is so white you wonder if its already turned into marble. The water is the clearest turquoise glass. .. If there was an animal on that wild beach or in that water surely you’d...
by Janine Duffy I love Australia for her depth. You can spend a lifetime getting to know her, and she will always surprise you. The Cape Range, near Exmouth, Western Australia is a lovely, red-glowing low escarpment jutting out of the WA coast like a coat-hook. .....
