Tag: dry tropics

Jourama Falls in the Dry

jourama falls walking track
The walking track to Jourama Falls

On the way home from the trip which took me to the Dalrymple Track and elsewhere I stopped off at Jourama Falls. I didn’t walk up to the falls themselves because I saw from the creek – still flowing, but only just over the camping ground causeways – that the effort would not be well rewarded.

This photo, however, confirms just how dry the country is now.

Townsville is the same, but we know Townsville is in the Dry Tropics; Jourama is not far from Townsville, so we shouldn’t be too surprised that it’s dry; but both are drier than usual, and Cardwell, definitely in the Wet Tropics, was nearly as bad.

A Guide to Wildlife and protected areas of the Top End

cover - A Guide to Wildlife and protected areas of the Top End A Guide to Wildlife and protected areas of the Top End

Lindley McKay

Environment Centre NT, 2017

This handsomely produced book is the result of an ambitious project undertaken by the Environment Centre of the Northern Territory. It will be a valuable resource for years to come, not only for Territorians but for anyone living in, or visiting, North Queensland and Northern WA.

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Frogs and tropical plants at Mary Who?

cover of "Frogs of Queensland"A quick announcement: Mary Who? Bookshop, Flinders St, Townsville, is celebrating National Bookshop Day tomorrow, Saturday August 10th (apologies for the late notice) and these three Author Talks, all including Q&A, should be of interest to regular Green Path readers:

12pm – Yvonne Cunningham – Tropical Food Gardening
1.00 pm – Eric Vanderduys – Frogs of Queensland
2.00 pm – Keith Townsend – Plants of the Dry Tropics

The full programme apparently begins at 9.30 with a public “Read-in” and continues with children’s book events but they are not listed on the bookshop’s facebook page so you may have to contact the shop’s staff for details.