Well, we saw our first stick insect this week! I was walking up to the 1st floor of my building at work on Monday night and at first walked on by, thinking a twig had become stuck on the wall (stairwells in our building are outside, so this was on an outside wall on a...

This was a winning week for the retiree in the house! Although Hugh didn't have the best of golf games on Monday, the $5 raffle ticket he bought paid off. He got a call on Tue morning that he'd won a meat tray! In my mind, I pictured a deli meat platter maybe 30-40 cm...

So emus are supposed to be fairly common here - there are apparently around 700,000 of them across the country. That's nowhere near the 50 million kangaroos we have, but still a good number of large, running birds. On the highway between Yeppoon and Rockhampton, there...