BY BEVERLEYI recently did a bird photography workshop with Shelley Pearson at Wooleen Station in the West Australian outback. I learnt so much - and not just about bird photography.
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We recently toured the Northern Territory with Luke Paterson (NT Bird Specialists). The marketing promised a finch frenzy - but Luke delivered plenty more! This was a great value experience. Read on to find out more.
We've been hearing about Lee Point, and the threat from land clearing, from afar, but while we were in Darwin, we thought we'd take a look for ourselves. It truly looks like a bird Mecca worth defending.
BY BEVERLEYI recently blogged about my splendid days at Kilcowera Station. Seeing the Bourke's parrots there was the highlight...but here's why this was one of my best and worst bird photography experiences to date.
I spent three splendid days at Kilcowera Station, about 90km south of Thargomindah in the south-west Queensland outback. It is a truly remarkable place - natural beauty with its trees and vegetation, excellent birds -- accessible via a stony and challenging drive around the property. The silence and the solace were a tonic. Highly recommended.
BY BEVERLEYI was so chuffed to find these pink cockatoos - also known as Major Mitchell cockatoos - late in the day recently at Bowra Sanctuary in Queensland. The light was poor, except the setting sun came out just briefly and highlighted their cones. It was such a delightful experience.
So we've explained our motivation, and all the moving parts to kit it out - but does our Troopy fit out all work? Here's our experience so far...
Yep, this rear bar is a step change - pun intended. We're mostly very pleased with our Cruiser Co rear bar...read on.
As explained elsewhere, we decided to take the plunge - a giant leap of faith really - and have our internal fit out done interstate - in Gloucester, NSW, quite distant from Melbourne....here's how it went and what we think of the workmanship, the products and the customer experience.
In 2022, we decided to get a Troopy - see why. Just before Christmas 2022, our All-Cab roof conversion was completed, and a 270 degree awning was added to our Troopy, along with a GVM upgrade, and side steps and rails. Six months later, we added an Alu-Cab shower cube and load bars...here's what happened and how it went.
We're two senior gals, recently retired, who had no idea that, post-pandemic, we'd be launching into four wheel driving, camping, and "waking up with the birds". But we did - and here's our story: what we did and why, who we engaged to fit out the Troopy, and how that's gone. We'd love to hear your experiences, and hope our story helps others who are thinking of taking the plunge. This blog post gives you the general background - and others give more detailed reviews of the main providers.
On a recent Nullarbor crossing, we birded as and when we could, in both directions. We were more focussed on travelling than birding so this is not intended to be a comprehensive list of birds that others might see - this is just a record of our experience. Enjoy!
BY BEVERLEYIn my younger life I studiously avoided ever driving across the Nullarbor - but more recently, I've just really wanted to do it - to see what's out there and to be in those wide open silent spaces. Turns out it was fantastic!
There's nothing like a photo-bombing pelican to take your mind of things...but Forster is such a relaxing haven, even this didn't raise our blood pressure! Here are few glimpses of the birds we saw in the exquisite surrounds of Forster.
While we had a few days in Forster, we made the most of the road south through the lakes area to explore the national parks and other sites of interest - the birds did not disappoint, and the scenery was exquisite. Read on for a quick recap of our visits to Booti Booti NP, Lake Myall and Seal Rocks, and Coomba Park. Paradise!
It's always fun to see a lifer, and this was our first sighting of the regent bowerbird - a female, as it happens. We were visiting the fabulous Copeland Tops near Gloucester NSW a couple of months back.
In mid-March 23, we headed up to the small town of Gloucester, north of Sydney, and inland from Forster-Tuncurry. We were on a mission to have our Troopy kitted out by Drifta (more on that shortly). This was our very first trip to this spectacular area - so we made sure we visited at least one of the standout areas in the nearby hinterland: Copeland Tops.
This is going to be a difficult selection - there's so much birdlife to enjoy in Tassie - but here goes with our five best peak bird experiences: what we saw and where! Seeing the Tassie wedge-tailed eagle up close was the best.
This little beauty made our day at Mount Field National Park. What a brilliant finish to our trip to Tasmania.
We stayed at Strawbale Cottage where miniature ponies live. Those were two of the four fabulous things about this place! But there was much more...
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