Outdoors

Every year in late December when Michal Duzynski was a boy his family would put a live carp in the bathtub.  A few days later,…

Preliminary designs for a $10 million planetarium on Tamborine Mountain have been released to the public.  Tamborine Mountain Universe (TMU) unveiled the plans at its…

Karen Diggles is used to seeing movement in the night sky above her Moogerah Dam property.  But what she witnessed in the predawn gloom on…

Photos by Lyle Radford. You may have a Grevillea ‘Robyn Gordon’ in your garden – it’s a hybrid between two native Grevilleas developed in a…

In February this year, John Leslie Dowe from the James Cook University published a paper on the artworks of English artist Marianne North – a…

A walk in the rainforests of the Bunya Mountains is akin to a virtual walk across millenia to the time of the dinosaurs. The mountains…

Photos by Lyle Radford Rainforests & waterfalls The prominent feature of the Little Llangothlin Nature Reserve is the Little Llangothlin Lagoon which is listed as…

Rainforests & waterfalls If waterfalls and rainforests are on your must see list then Dorrigo National Park will hold a lot of appeal. The park…

Photos by Lyle Radford. The blue pools of Boonoo Boonoo The man who gave Australia its bush anthem, ‘Waltzing Matilda’, and took us on a…

By Peter Trehearn This short excerpt is from a poem titled  “ I’d pick More Daisies” “If I had my life to live over, I…

What is a golf course without a green? For the Boonah Golf Club, it’s been a hard task keeping that green from going brown. It’s…

Peter Trehearn spent 30 years working at Brisbane Grammar School’s Outdoor Centre and regularly took boys up Mt Greville, Mt Edwards and Mt Moon. That…