Camino Confidential

(The cat not the film!). We named him Othello when C first got him from the cat haven, but we soon started calling him Boy for short. He was...

Rain was forecast and it came all day in short, sharp showers. We were constantly putting on our rain jackets and taking them off again. I w...

I've joined a class at MALA (Mature Age Learning Association) entitled The Incredible Plant Diversity of the South West. It is being giv...

Named after a cow called Kitty, who wandered off from the herd and ended up in the steep-sided Gorge. That was the end of Kitty. The Bushwal...

Singing Waters is the aboriginal name for Araluen, a botanic park in a sheltered valley near Perth. It has its own microclimate with lit...

Yesterday was really too hot for bushwalking: 27 degrees in the afternoon!  We arrived back heat exhausted and possibly de-hydrated. The spe...

Many keen orchid hunters descended on Wireless Hill today.  It's the season! We managed to find a few in spite of (or because of) the cr...