Destinations Great Otway National Park, Victoria …overnight hikes. Snaking through tall rainforests and coastal heathlands the walk is brimming with native flora and fauna, and bird watching opportunities. With campsites scattered along the trail you will…
Reader Photos Australian ringneck parrots picture perfect …hopefully photograph some of the extraordinary birds that call Bowra Station home. Early one morning I set up a fairly crude hide constructed from an esky, spare clothing, and few…
Science & Environment Sleep: we need it and we still don't know why …bodies during adolescence, but it’s exacerbated by poor sleep habits like watching TV or using laptops, tablets and mobile phones in bed late into the night. Leon and Helen have…
Adventure Surviving Ireland's Mourne Wall Challenge I’M STANDING IN THEIR shadow, in a deserted cobblestone car park, watching as early morning mist slowly snaffles the mountains. I’m about to embark on the Mourne Wall Challenge and…
Adventure Africa's big game by bike, if you're game …the Okavango is the world’s largest inland river delta. Such natural irrigation causes vegetation to flourish. atttracting a huge quantity and variety of animals and birds. Heading into the Okavango…
Adventure Cook Islands: paddling the traditional way …meet my host, Roger. Atiu, he tells me, is also known as Enuamanu, which means “land of the birds”. I’m not much of twitcher, but there is one bird here…
Adventure Paddling through the desert THE PROBLEM WITH the desert was rain. Rain that turned the hard earth fertile. Rain that gave birth to life itself, to wildflowers that smothered the sands, to birds that…
Adventure Summer in Thredbo …from Cooma slowly, watching out for wildlife on the road. The sun had been in our eyes the past hour, illuminating every curve in the land, as well as each…
How To Adventure filming …videographers should do the same. There’s nothing more boring than watching a video that goes nowhere, such as just following a mountain bike trail, or the front-end of a kayak…
Reader Photos Bottlenose dolphin bubbles Says Jim, a photographer from Sydney, New South Wales: “This photo was taken on a whale watching cruise out of Sydney. We didn’t see much at all until we had…