No matter how any day or night transpires, the simple act of patience, slowing to observe the tiny details of nature’s wonders, helps to put you at ease. It took an accidental encounter with a spider for me to truly appreciate that...
Category: People in Nature
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When Time Stops: A Day Aboard Polperro
Watching dolphins from the shore is an incredible gift, but experiencing time together with them in the water is something else all together...
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Bloomin’ Backyard
I savour a sip of tea from my first cuppa for the day and focus on our lively backyard. Fruiting trees planted in rows like a small orchard still bear the remains of the wonderful spring bloom we recently enjoyed...
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Nursing a Green Thumb: The Restorative Powers of People and Plants
It soon became apparent to me that, in the most beautiful sense of irony, the nursery was in fact nursing people and not just plants. The enthusiastic and energised atmosphere coupled with the therapeutic act of gardening was providing feelings of wellbeing that lingered well into the week, permeating each person’s daily life...
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At Land’s End: The Beauty of Point Nepean
Point Nepean National Park is 90 km from Melbourne, but at only a few minutes’ drive from Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula, it is a popular tourist destination...
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Keep In Touch
We have become so good at managing our own environments that we can sometimes forget that feeling the force of the seasons is part of the experience of being human...
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The vagaries of vagrant-chasers explained
People who do twitching are called twitchers and twitch can also be used as a verb for doing the activity. But what exactly is it that twitchers do and why are they cleaning their bins because of it?...
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Oasis in the Desert
Imagine, just for a second, that you were transported to far-Western Victoria as it was 300 years ago. The sweeping plains and occasional dunes continue on as far as the eye can see, with not a scrap of barbed wire in sight....
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Listen up and you will never look back
There are few sounds so intrinsically linked with Australia as the chortle of a magpie first thing in the morning. Yet, despite this early foray into call recognition, few people add more than a handful of other species to the list of birds that they can recognise by call...
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Walking Amongst Giants
Toolangi State Forest is home to many of Victoria’s most astonishingly lofty trees that are primarily of the mountain ash species...