We often hear flying foxes around the house but rarely see them at such close range as this!
Category: Nature photography
My nature photography, mainly insects and mainly from Townsville
Panoramas from Mount Stuart
Three months ago I spent a morning on Mt Stuart and came home with new perspectives on familiar Townsville locations. Last weekend I spent a very enjoyable afternoon with friends on a slightly different part of the mountain, and came home with another set of views.
We were hanging round on cliffs which look towards Cape Cleveland and Magnetic Island. For much of the time we were on a ledge only a couple of metres wide, with cliffs above us (on the right of my first photo) and beneath us.
Cape Hillsborough revisited
Cape Hillsborough near Mackay is a favourite holiday destination for the very good reason that it’s magically beautiful. We’ve written about the National Park and the resort after a previous trip (introduction and overview , 2014) so this post is mostly saying that it’s still there and still as good as ever.
The resort has been adequately maintained but not significantly altered in at least 25 years, so it’s still very low-key and family-centred; it is probably constrained by its position, wrapped around by National Park with no possibility of expansion, but that is fine as far as we’re concerned.
Rollingstone Creek revisited
I have just revisited Bushy Park beside Rollingstone Creek, figuring (correctly) that it would be lovely as the Wet season draws to an end. The long grass was full of paddy-bugs and ladybirds, with a few spiders for variety.
Marsupial Dragon
The Marsupial Dragon is such an improbable beast that even cryptozoologists hardly like to talk about it.