australia flashback: grub street bookshop, melbourne
every few years, math and i find a cute little bookshop that is literally bursting with books. our latest discovery was grub street bookshop in fitzroy, melbourne: right across the […]
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australia flashback: cool temperate rainforest, wilsons promontory
wilsons promontory national park (australian: “the prom”) is located at the southernmost tip of continental australia. we arrived there in cool, rainy-windy weather which, we were told, was “pretty ordinary”. […]
australia flashback: short-beaked echidna
this short-beaked echidna (tachyglossus aculeatus) crossed our way near 90-mile beach. it kept going back and forth across the road at the blindest bend in kilometres. while generally afraid of […]
georgia excursion 2012, in 33 panorama pictures
here’s a quick (and very incomplete) set of impressions from last month’s botanical excursion to georgia (the country). instead of trying to organize and post-process all the pictures first, i […]
togean island information: on reservation and making contact, boat times and prices, etc.
ever since writing my trip report about the togean islands in central sulawesi, and two reviews on tripadvisor, i’ve received quite a few questions for more details concerning this remote […]
costa rica part 2: volcan arenal, hanging bridges and tropical fruit
here’s part two of my trip report / photo album for the biological excursion to costa rica. previous parts: part 1: volcan barva, volcan poas, and rio frio boat trip […]