It was an inauspicious start to a journey that had been on the drawing board for many months, for when the day of departure arrived, so too did illness. Not to be deterred by a touch of misery, I popped a couple of painkillers, clambered into the passenger’s seat of the campervan and, with a […]
The Wild Side of the City
The mirrored surface of the black water shimmered almost imperceptibly as a bunyip raised its scaly head through the congestion of waterlily leaves. If such a creature existed, the shaded lagoons of the Tondoon Botanic Gardens, on the western outskirts of the Queensland city of Gladstone, would undoubtedly be its chosen habitat, but the mythical […]