The wetland dried up leaving lots of food for the snakes, goannas, water rats and birds.

Spring is gone. The days are heating up, the goannas are out and about. Bells phase Goannas We have noticed two Bells Phase lace...

The record floods dominate everything for us and in the bush. Cane toads have arrived. Weeding and pest management and a lot more.

We saw the dingo (Canis familiaris) from our wildlife camera. He sauntered along the path we had made through the bush. He turned left...

The dry ended with lots of rain, finally filling streams and wetlands.

Winter at Istari with the scrub wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus) and other locals

Ducklings hatch and grow up while we isolate in the bush.

The summer is almost over and it has rained. The fires have stopped. The days are almost constantly hot but unlike the later part of 2019,

The dry continues in the Clarence. Although there has been some rain on the coast much of the valley is seeing little rain.

The creek water refuge has now disappeared so we put a container of fresh water in the bush and set a camera.

A few light frosts arrived in June and the grass died off. Then came the real frosts. It dropped below zero several days in a row,...

Have you ever seen these signs - "Land for Wildlife". You'll see them beside country roads, usually in bush areas. We had seen them...

One of the many magic things about living in the bush is the wildlife. It is a privilege to have them so close and living their life in fron

The journey of regeneration from cleared to a young forest.

Winters on the north coast of NSW are usually beautiful blue sky days and we have already had quite a few of them already. There is usually

Black She-oak (allocasuarina littoralis) As the autumn moves into winter, along the roadsides and scattered throughout the bush, splashes...

Goannas are smart animals and learnt, over time, to overcome many of our efforts to keep them out of the chicken pen. We now think we have

​It has been a busy week in the bush. We had a visit from the plumed whistling ducks (dendrocygna eytoni) again but this time two adults...

Summer has arrived but thankfully the cicadas haven't started to 'sing' yet. The crunchy grass is finally beginning to grow again after...

This first letter outlines a little about the history and resulting environment here at Istari where we live in the Clarence valley.