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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Found by my son whilst hiking in the Brindabellas was this small skull. What I thought was interesting was the remaining canine evident. At... -
Discovered in the early 1820's the small village of Queanbeyan was established on the Molonglo River on the 'Limestone Plains'. ... -
If anyone is looking for a place to do a little gold prospecting might I suggest the mighty Goodradigbee in the Brindabella Valley. I'll... -
The competition to design the new Federal Capital City of Canberra in 1913, having 136 entries, ended with the decision to award Walter Bur... -
The Canberra Diaspora is a collection of videos from people who have links to the National Capital. If you have links to Canberra the follo... -
Apart from being illegal in the ACT I thought everyone knew about the perils of using 'opera house' style traps for yabbies and c... -
I spent a while this morning with Mark Parton, a local Tuggeranong MLA, visiting a few Indigenous heritage sites. After an inspection of ...