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The Crack, Let the Time Come

In his distraction Manny tripped and the flasks tottered and swayed. [...]

Mystery Santa Cruz Migration, 2001

Large straggly flocks flying north close to the water were Brent geese. [...]

Heathrow to Singapore, 2008

I was on the first leg to Australia, supping my first British Airways beer. Cheers! [...]

Brown Teal, Tiritiri Matangi

With fewer than 1,000 in the entire world it’s as good as extinct. There’s really no way back from that low a number. [...]

Flinders Birds, 2008

I turned back pre-breakfast to see what birds were up and about early to scrape a living from the desolation. [...]

2009: New Zealand Plovers, Miranda

So it was that tuturiwhatu became my next lifer but not before tuturiwhatu had joined the trip list. You read that right. [...]

Dear Santa

free rent, background extinction, $500 at poker, less population, Premium Bonds win [...]

2009: Not Quite Freycinet, Tasmania

On the eastern seaboard Tasman Highway, heading north to Bicheno for the road down the other side of Moulting Lagoon. [...]