Bibliophilia

Its not all just walking on the beach and writing poetry in the trees here at Cape Tribulation. Since the rainforest has proved to be an uns...

Bumpy satinash with rainforest characteristic 'cauliflory' where flowers and fruit grow directly on the tree trunks. Off Track Escap...

I'm starting to know and appreciate the brush turkeys that hang around Rainforest Hideaway . At first I didn't like them because I...

Cooper's Creek was still flooding across the road (though not as deeply) when Rachel and I set off on our weekend to the Atherton Tablel...

The ten fruits at the tasting I have my first visitor here at Cape Tribulation ! Rachel has come from Wellington to spend a week with me ...

The orange-footed scrub fowl may not look like the Italian movie stars of the rainforest, being small and sleek and subtly beautiful. ...

The guppy population in the fishpond at Rainforest Hideaway is kept under control by this Azure Kingfisher, who with his short tail and bri...

A happy coincidence of circumstances enabled me to hitch an unexpected lift to Mossman yesterday. Unlike my first (and last) visit when I n...

I've been asleep an hour, still in a dreamless state, loosely draped in only a sheet against the midnight heat, when I feel the unmista...

Wwoofing at Rainforest Hideaway usually means cleaning several bathrooms a day and yesterday meant helping to clean out the grease trap (yu...

Remember the original Star Wars movie, where the young Luke Skywalker visits with Yoda on his home planet? Yoda lives in a dark, creepy, mi...

Beautiful and terrible, the rainforest has no sympathy for human weaknesses, human needs. ‘Here you are,’ it says. ‘Deal with it.’ An...

I have proved that it is actually possible to make an artist's book in the rainforest. It was not easy, it was not quick, it didn't...