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Bunya, tree of reconciliation

The Bunya Mountains are the ancestral land of the Wakka Wakka, Jarowair and Barunggam peoples, Queensland, Australia

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe bunya tree is amazing in so many respects and not just because it is a cultural, sacred and emotional icon for both Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. It has a curious ancient botanical lineage; it was food for the largest ever dinosaurs; today it is devoured by modern animals. Yesterday’s Queenslanders fought vicious wars over […]

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Aboriginal, Australian Geographic, Did You Know?, Habitats, On the Beaton Track, Photography Techniques, Professional Photography, Queensland, , ,

Rainbow Bee-eaters In Trouble – Agnes Water/1770

Reading Time: 4 minutes“It’s a mess”, said Wayne, the administrator of the Facebook group for the Agnes Water community. I ran into him as I was photographing an amazing sight that I stumbled across when I decided to cruise up the coast from my home on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. The towns of Agnes Water and 1770,

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Bird Images, Bird photography, Conservation, Nature and Wildlife, On the Beaton Track, Photography Techniques, Queensland, Travel Photography

Wild, wilder and really native

Orchid, Lemon Kiss, Spathoglottis sp,

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe For Sale sign was advertising “Native Ground Orchids”. What — there are native ground orchids in a nursery? I thought Australia’s ground orchids could not be propagated? Something about needing mycorrhizal associations…? Mystified, I hit the brakes and careened into the nursery’s driveway to check out this amazing feat. Oh, they meant that kind

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Beautiful Images, Digital Photography, Flower Photography, Flowers & botanicals, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Photography Techniques, Queensland, , , , ,

Whitsunday Islands Photography Sailing Safari

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been wanting to do longer than one-day workshops and heres’s one that will thrill some of you to bits. Together with Southern Cross Sailing Adventures, I’ll be running workshops aboard a well-known tall ship, the Solway Lass. But wait, theres’s more! It will be in the Whitsundays, a land beautiful beyond belief. There’s the

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