LIFE ON THE PLATEAU

What a weekend! Waterfalls, pythons and Black Grasswrens. I'm in heaven. Check out this beauty. A magnificent Carpet Python (Morelia...

Another Wolf Spider enjoying its dinner. This time carrying 40-50 tiny spiderlings on its back. How amazing is nature!

Yep, Bonnie the Bowerbird who was making a mess in the bathroom had an accomplice. Franky the Friarbird has been keeping her company and...

2-3 minute exposures under a full moon. A night to remember. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; There is rapture on the lonely...

Anybody got a big ladder?? Happy to report the bird is back in the air! :)

Another Mertens' Water Monitor enjoying a dip.

Something a little different. Just something that caught my eye and made me smile. Simple morning reflections. Very zen.

The delicate beauty of the Boab flower. Only usually seen during the Kimberley's Wet season.

Punamii-Uunpuu/Mitchell Falls. The spiritual home of the Wanambal people and the resting place of the ancestral rainbow serpent. People...

The Wandjina - or the weather Gods - put on a quite a show on the weekend. This is my first attempt at lightning photography. Really...

Thank you Cyclone Blake. So good to see the waterfalls flowing again after such a dry Dry season. That water, as it rushes downstream,...

*Update* When I first posted this last week I assumed it was another, smaller, Golden-backed tree rat. Thanks to someone much more...

Yep, it rained for 4 days straight and dropped 370mm. That's just below the January average of 375mm and there's still 3 weeks left in...

This was never going to end well. Gaz put me up to it...

The cyclone delivered! 223mm of rain in less than 48hrs!! That's almost as much as October and November combined. The Wet season has...

This is Mitchell after 212mm in December. With a cyclone off the coast at the moment and weather warnings for the Mitchell Plateau there...

One more from along the Gibb before the roads closed... Yep, the Gibb River Road and Kalumburu Road are now officially closed. All access...

Here's my Wet season resolutions (or New Year's resolutions in disguise). I put these together back in Oct before coming up here. I...

A Splendid Tree Frog, also known as a Magnificent Tree Frog (Ranoidea splendida). Only found on the north-western coast of Australia.

Every weekend is a treasure hunt. After working Mon - Fri at the lodge I make sure to get out on the weekend, go for a walk and spend a...