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..
The mighty Murrumbidgee River is a trickling creek at Tharwa Bridge
Australia is in the grips of the worst drought in living memory. A walk down to the Murrumbidgee River found the lowest levels of flow that ...
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Punishments for convicts assigned to landowners in the Limestone Plains (present day Canberra) district were often swift and severe for the ... -
Duntroon House is the oldest residence in Canberra and has been included as part of the National Estate by the Australian Heritage Commissio... -
140 year old Gold Creek Homestead is a stone and brick building located off Gungahlin Drive in Ngunnawal. The Gold Creek Homestead is a gro... -
A little bit of railway history and a nice walk with the dog yesterday to the Tuggeranong railway siding on the old Cooma line. The railway ... -
JOHN TENNANT - The "Terror of Argyle" Tennant had been a convict assigned to Canberry, a property in the present day inner north... -
Ngambri scarred tree, Wanniassa What Are Scarred Trees? Scars on trees can result from the deliberate removal of bark by Aboriginal peopl... -
This photo is of a gum tree that grows at the end of my childhood street in Canberra. It's an old tree and not all that different from a...