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Arctic – Polar Bear Sausages

No, I don’t mean sausages made from polar bear meat! I mean what they eat, creatures with rich fat to see a bear through months of starvation, such as seals. It was only on my recent trip to the Arctic that I learned that walruses are related to seals, being pinnipeds (which means fin-footed). Obvious…

Shetland

Having watched all the Shetland TV programs (fictional detective series), and visited the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica, I was keen to visit the Shetland Islands in Scotland. They didn’t disappoint. As we drove the single-lane roads through treeless heath lands, between rock walls failing to keep in shaggy sheep, I felt as if I…

Into The Wild

All too often, wombats are killed on the road and their joeys left alive. For the lucky ones, they are rescued and put in the hands of a carer. When you see a dead wombat at the side of the road with a big coloured X on it’s body, it means someone has checked the…

Lake Mungo

I love travelling to the Australian outback, where memories of driving the dusty red roads with my late husband, Pete, are still fresh and poignant. The vast skies, the lack of other vehicles, the sense of freedom, all add to a atmosphere that makes me feel insignificant. The power of nature and the changes the…

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I am an Australian author and citizen scientist committed to caring for native wildlife, especially on my property, which is a registered sanctuary with the Humane Society International’s Wildlife Land Trust.

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