Category: Natural History

Nea Kameni: Santorini’s Volcanic Caldera and a Landscape Still Forming

Nea Kameni: Santorini’s Volcanic Caldera and a Landscape Still Forming Nea Kameni, “the New Burnt Island”, is the young volcanic island at the centre of Santorini’s flooded caldera, a dark mound of lava about two kilometres across that has grown out of the sea through a series of eruptions over the last few centuries, most […]

Australian Bushfires

The Black Summer: An Unprecedented Australian Bushfire Season Fire and fire management has historically been part of the this continents fabric. Ecosystems have adapted to fire from the regeneration of Eucalpyt forests to triggers for Leptospermum seeds to germinate after a fire event. However, Australia experienced unprecedented fires during the 2019-20 bushfire season, September to […]

Curiosities of Australia and New Zealand

Australia and New Zealand, isolated geographically from the rest of the world, have developed their own distinctive natural world quite unlike anywhere else on earth. To the rest of the world, some of these natural phenomena are interesting, some a little quirky, and others just downright weird. From frogs with pouches, to carnivorous snails, fruit-shaped rocks, and gigantic meteor craters, read on to discover the Australia and New Zealands’ top ten curious animals and landforms.

The Franklin River, Tasmania

The Franklin River itself winds its way 125km south-west through the wilderness national park, from its source in the alpine lakes of the Cheyne Ranges to its confluence at the Gordon River.

The South and East Alligator Rivers, Northern Territory

The Alligator Rivers area in the Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory of Australia is home to some of the richest biological diversity and most stunning landscapes in the country.

The Ord River, Western Australia

The mighty Ord River in the eastern Kimberley region of Western Australia is one of the country’s most significant waterways, home to spectacular scenery.

Scenic air tours of Australia

Within Australia there are a range of private plane options suitable for an aircraft charter service operation. As a tour operator working with the private aviation sector we are selecting the right aircraft for the small group tour of outback Australia offered.

Kimberley Boab Tree

Boab Tree: Botanical Symbol of the Kimberley Endemic exclusively to the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Boab trees be found from the West Kimberley coast to as far east as the Victoria and Fitzmaurice rivers in the Northern Territory. From Broome through to Kununurra, they’re a common sight. Growing at sea level to elevations of […]

Gawler, South Australia

Gawler is a pleasant country town 40 kilometres to the north of Adelaide and close to the major wine producing districts of Barossa Valley. The oldest country town in the state of South Australia, in Victorian times it was extremely prosperous, with foundries, engineering works, coachbuilders, brickworks, breweries and flour mills employing large numbers of people.

Australian Megafauna

Australian Megafauna Harkening back to a surreal and exciting chapter of Australia‘s natural history, the era of Australia‘s megafauna sees a recurrence of the many familiar faces seen in our native wildlife today, such as the much loved fuzzy wombat, or the iconic Kangaroo. However, this ancestral wombat wasn’t quite so small and cute as […]

Iconic Animals of the Australian Outback

Iconic Animals of the Australian Outback When it comes to Australia‘s iconic wildlife, the more well known faces of the Kangaroo, Emu, or Koala generally spring to mind. But for many Australians, or visitors from abroad, it can be easy to forget the incredible diversity of wildlife that inhabits this enormous continent, ranging from the […]

Flinders Ranges National Parks, South Australia

Rugged mountains, tree-lined gorges, an abundance of wildlife: the national parks of the iconic Flinders Ranges are the beginning of Australia’s outback. 

Saving the Tasmanian Devil

The Tasmanian Devil is truly one of a kind – the world’s largest surviving carnivorous marsupial

Appreciating Australian River Systems

Australian Rivers By Marco Stojanovik Australian rivers have shaped the country from the moment the first Indigenous people arrived tens of thousands of years ago through European occupation until today. Supplying the vital ingredients of life and supporting a significant amount of biodiversity, they have also played a significant cultural and economic role, a means […]

Understanding the Channel Country, Australia

The Channel Country By Marco Stojanovik The Channel Country constitutes some of the most distinctive landscape in Australia: wide open flat alluvial terrain that is essentially desert that floods after heavy rainfall. An estimated 280,000 sq km, it covers the south-west of Queensland, a birth of the north-west corner of South Australia, and a small […]

The Murray River, Australia

The Murray River The mighty Murray River, Australia’s longest river and main stream of the Murray Darling Basin, flows some 2,700 km across south-eastern Australia. Rising in the Australian Alps, it drains the western side of Australia’s highest mountains before meandering north westerly across Australia’s inland plains, forming the border between the states of New […]

Birding in Broome, Western Australia

Birding in Broome, Western Australia The town of Broome, in the remote north of Western Australia, is a birdwatcher’s paradise. Over 330 bird species have been recorded in and around Broome – more than one third of Australia‘s total bird species, and over 55 species of waders or shorebirds, almost 1/4 of the world’s total. […]

The Simpson Desert, Australia

The Simpson Desert, Australia Sand dunes, desert flora, and splendid isolation: the Simpson Desert is one of the great wildernesses of outback Australia. Crossing the borders of South Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory, the Simpson Desert covers a vast 170, 000 square kilometres, an area six times the size of Belgium. The Simpson Desert […]

The Tarkine Rainforest, Tasmania

The Tarkine Rainforest, Tasmania Home to ancient Myrtle beech and Huon pine, dense rainforests, and wild ocean views, the Tarkine forest Tasmania, found in an area in the north west of the island is one of Australia’s great temperate rainforest wildernesses now preserved as a conservation area. The term ‘Tarkine’ generally refers to 3,500 kilometres […]

Camels of the Australian Outback

Camels of the Australian Outback Here’s a trivia question : where are the world’s only wild single-hump (dromedary camel) camels found? If you guessed Arabia or the Sahara, you’d be wrong. In fact, the answer is the deserts of central Australia, where their imported ancestors (camelus dromedarius) were freed after playing a key role in […]

Highlights of Australia: The yellow-footed rock-wallaby

Highlights of Australia: The yellow-footed rock-wallaby Today a threatened species, the yellow-footed rock-wallaby is one of Australia‘s most charming and attractive marsupials. Yellow footed rock wallabies are the largest marsupial of the rock-wallaby family of wallabies. Sitting up, they reach a height of about 60 centimetres, and weigh between 6 and 12 centimetres. They are […]