IN SEARCH OF THE RIFLE BIRD An Australian Rainforest Odyssey “The Paradise Rifle Bird is the most southerly of the many birds of paradise species – it is the avian snow leopard of Australian faunal lore; rarely ever seen but breathtaking when it is”. If your name doesn’t begin with O at the O’Reilly guest […]
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Sacred Fauna: Australia’s Apocryphal Animals
LAND OF MONSTERS!! Australia’s Apocryphal Animals This headline reminds me of a TV show I saw a few years back: in a happy snap taken on ta NSW bush picnic, not only the holiday-makers’ familiar faces smiled back at the lens; but from behind them, a huge Yowie was accidentally caught peering from the shrubbery! […]
Sacred Fauna: Australia’s Unique Fauna
EXTINCTION IS NOT FOREVER! Australia’s Unique Fauna “As a Maritime (Astral) Initiate of the 3rd degree, I have, certainly since passing into the spiritual world in 1814, had more than my share of contact with the wonderful group souls of animals. For a start, my best pal on my long voyages over the world oceans […]
Sacred Places: Australian 12: The Sagamatha-Wollumbin Axis
The Sagamatha-Wollumbin Axis Mount Warning — Byron Bay Australia’s Twelfth Sacred Place Disclaimer: your author has recently returned, disillusioned, to the Sydney area after living in Australia’s 12thSacred Place for 14 years. The objectivity of negative comments to follow is therefore open to question. My wife and I lived on a beautiful, bountiful sub-tropical acre […]
Sacred Places: Australian 11: The Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef Australia’s Eleventh Sacred Place “He prayeth best who loveth best, All things both great and small, For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.” This verse, from the end of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is a timeless canon of the Animal Liberation […]
Sacred Places: Australian 10: Kakadu
Land of the Lightning Man Kakadu — Australia’s Tenth Sacred Place From November to March each year, in Australia’s wet season tropics, a war rages between two spiritual beings and their hosts. These are Nyalyod, sometimes personified as an airborne fire python, and Namarrgon, The Lightning Man. The central theater of this metaphysical battle is […]