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...
Tag: People in Nature
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...
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...
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?...
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....
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...
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...
Getting lost in the High Country
Above all, get out there, get away from the city from time to time and remember what quiet sounds like. Go and get lost...