Friday, May 26, 2017
Tidbinbilla Bandicoot
A visit to the Sanctuary at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve last week. No sooner had I entered the imposing steel double gate and walked 20 meters before I heard a rustle at my feet and before me was a very photogenic Bandicoot. He or she allowed me to follow for a while leaving the best footage till last.. So much to explore there..
History lost through lack of funding
The following ABC article laments the possible loss of many historical audio visual records that are waiting for digitising into modern fo...
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Update: 18/5/12 I like the solitude of Namadgi. I have always felt safe apart from a few encounters with pigs and wild dogs but that has... -
Tonight, after the storms, was a very still evening in Namadgi and a perfect opportunity to do a little thermal "spotlighting" of ... -
Found by my son whilst hiking in the Brindabellas was this small skull. What I thought was interesting was the remaining canine evident. At... -
Something left field... The common yabby (Cherax destructor) is a freshwater crustacean that is common in waterways, reservoirs and farm ...
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Out past Uriarra to the west of Canberra is the Brindabella Road. The road rises to the peak of the Brindabella Mountain on the ACT border b... -
Canberra's first arboretum (info here ) was established at Westbourne Woods in the Canberra suburb of Yarralumla. In May 1913 horticult... -
The competition to design the new Federal Capital City of Canberra in 1913, having 136 entries, ended with the decision to award Walter Bur...
