Extreme Animals Only $25 each! Learn about the fascinating lives and special abilities of the world’s most extreme and bizzare animals with these activity kits. The perfect gift for young Aussie explorers…
News 5 beautiful places in Australia not to be missed …sites. And that is just the appetizer. This trip will showcase the seductive coastlines and shimmering seas from the azure aquarium that is the Great Barrier Reef, to the Wet…
Our Country …of places. As we allow ourselves to be swept away by elemental forces, we are transported from Australia’s lush rainforests to its snowy peaks, red deserts to its aquamarine seas….
News Celebrate Our Country: Final week in Sydney …aquamarine seas. Come face-to-face with a bold saltwater croc, sit up high in the eucalypts with dozing koalas, dive deep into the ocean with the giant humpback whale and be…
Creatura Blog Sea pigs are the aliens of the sea …Late last year, researchers from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California spotted young crabs hitching a ride on the bellies of sea pigs to hide from predators. They…
Destinations Mt Warning: Early warning …along Australia’s east coast, heading back to nature. They found it deep in the forests of Terania Creek. They weren’t alone. The Aquarius Festival a year earlier in the nearby…
Wildlife Australia was once full of flamingos …for years in dry lake beds as durable eggs, spores or cells. When flamingos exited the stage, the aquatic life in Australia’s salt lakes could prosper during the wet times without…
Destinations Cycling, trekking and paddling rural Vietnam …of limestone peaks. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is an aquatic oasis in north-east Vietnam stretching over 1500sq.km. When we visited in October 2013, Typhoon Wutip was raging in central…
Destinations Skeleton Coast: Namibia's strange desert dwellers …favourite of the superbly camouflaged Namaqua chameleon (Chamaeleo namaquensis), which changes its colour and hunts prey in a surprisingly quick dash across the sand, catching victims in a flick of…
Destinations Roxby Downs: Living in an outback mining town …down the Murray.” Aside from the aquaculture and fishing industries’ fears about the effect such a plant could have on water quality in Spencer Gulf, environmentalists have expressed concerns over…