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Rainbow over Tully

Taken this morning on the first anniversary of Cyclone Yasi:

Cyclone Yasi – 365 days later

Today marks one year from the day Tropical Cyclone Yasi arrived so I thought I’d compile a list of Yasi related posts and tweets. 1. This is the first post about Yasi. It was written when we were still concerned about Cyclone Anthony. 2. Next was the first threat map for Yasi from the Fiji [...]

Paint dust

I’m hoping the painter has finally completed work at the lodge. Vacuuming 155 square metres (1680 square feet) of wooden floors is a pain in the arse. I think I need to hire a floor polisher now.

The garden zoo was busy today

I went outside and spotted a medium sized wallaby doing some lawn maintenance. I grabbed the camera and was just about to click the shutter release when it was spooked by a noise from the forest. Yet another cassowary in the garden. I’m going to miss these when we move back home. Cassowary having a [...]

Golden orb weaver spider

To give you some sense of scale this little lady is larger than my hand. Cute! It’s probably a Nephila pilipes and also likely to be a juvenile female. You can read more about this baby on Wikipedia. There are nine male admirers sitting in her web and waiting for her to return. The males [...]