Tim Gets Photos Taken for Media

Tim has been doing some amazing things at work recently. He has a blog which has recently won an innovation e-award. He has also been doing great work with the School of Business' MBA program. If you want to hear Tim lecturing, click HERE.

Growing Trees for the Back Yard

We have a lot of tall beautiful trees in our front yard and we want to extend our forest a bit in the back yard. So we have bought about three dozen seedling trees, mostly the pine-like casuarinas that the black cockatoos love, to transplant into the back yard. These have been growing for about 6 weeks. I will plant them in the fall. Our grevilleas (below) are also in full bloom after recent rains...

Water Dragon as Pet?

This is an interesting "pet" for a nursing home - a water dragon! Took this photo on one of my clinical consulting days in a Brisbane nursing home.The residents liked him a lot and fed him biscuits...

Ken Laidlaw Enjoys Brisbane

Ken Laidlaw hung out for a few days after the conference to do some work but also to see some Brisbane highlights such as Lone Pine Koala Park and coffee at UQ...

Joint Psychiatry and Psychology Conference, Gold Coast

Unbelievably, after over a year of planning, the first joint meeting of geriatric psychiatrists and psychologists in Australia was held, and was a success (see webpage HERE)! This was in no small measure due to the excellent invited speakers, including Ken Laidlaw from Scotland, Stephanie Allison from New Zealand and Osvaldo Almeida from Perth, Australia. Deep thanks to conference co-chair Gerard Byrne (above) for his gracious support and his deep appreciation of a good breakfast...

Garden Going Crazy!

We have had a lot of rain and the plants in the garden are really loving it. I have never seen these native orchids in bloom before; they are right in the front garden and are just stunning...

Net-casting Spider on our Verandah

This spider creates a small web that it uses as a net to toss on a passing insect. Even more remarkably, many species have the ability to create pheromones that simulate the mating scent of a moth. This attracts a male moth into its range so it can net it.

Long Hiking Day Along Beautiful Coastline

Today we went on the most excellent hike along the coast at South Mission Beach with Gavin, Michelle, Will and . The scenery was spectacular, and we were lucky enough to see a green tree snake on our walk.

Quick Trip to Mission Beach

We are spending the weekend in Mission Beach visiting out friends Gavin, Michelle and ther kids. Michelle is a geologist on sabatical here from Boston. When we landed we decided to have breakfast (HUGE!) at Nu Nu's in Palm Cove, which won best breakfast in Queensland for 2009. Tim had a version of a Croque Monsieur, and I had the pancakes with ricotta and fresh date filling. Our hotel is right next to the sea with a great view of Dunk Island...

Trip to Australia Zoo

Today we took Jim and Sarah to Australia Zoo, still home to the Crocodile Hunter. It is always a good place to show off Australia's wildlife.



We loved watching a tiny little girl getting her photo taken with the huge albino python... Jim and Sarah's photo was great (but less dramatic...)






After Australia Zoo we drove into Toorbul where we saw lots of wild kangaroos hanging around, as usual...

Jim and Sarah Come for a Visit

Our friends Jim and Sarah visited us for almost a week. We had a lot of fun showing them sights around Brisbane, including quolls having a tasty snack at Brisbane Forest Park and Natural Bridge National Park with its wonderful waterfalls...