If you follow our blog you'll know we just did a birding trip driving to Cape York from Melbourne, and we've been pondering 4WD and camping options for more remote drives. Well, we have acquired a Troopy, and we plan to make it into a tiny house as well...

Just when the weather feels at its worst in Melbourne, our skies and trees are brightened by the return of the lovely yellow-tailed black cockatoos. Here's some footage and pics of those we've seen this week...enjoy!

Just over 9000kms, two months of travel, a ton of new lifers and we're home. Here we reflect on our birding adventure, what we learned and what we'll do differently - or not - next time! We'd love to hear your thoughts.

Our stopover in Bourke was just a one nighter, but boy we loved the red-tailed black cockatoos we saw there. This pair were real smoochers, and  they were easy to find...

As we headed south, we saw more parrots (yay!), but in addition to learning about birds, we'd like to learn more about their homes and food sources. In Charleville, we found two excellent (but rather unadvertised) places to learn about the trees of the outback: the Botanic Drive (fifteen kms out of town), and the Graham Andrews Parklands in town. In this post, we share some of what we learnt there.