Deadly 60 – Australia is being broadcast on BBC one tomorrow at 17:15 for anyone that’s interested.
Within the program, lucky wildlife expert Steve Backshall and his crew head for the Australian continent as he continues …

I was having a little bit of banter with an Australian work colleague of mine the other day.
Having found another Redback spider in the back garden a couple of weeks ago I’ve found myself becoming …

Once we had decided to embark on our Road trip around western Australia, we had two options.
Option one: head down south towards the wine regions of Margaret River where we would spend the week touring …

Since arriving down under I’ve already written about the wonders of the bird life here in Western Australia.
Coming from Northern England, the most exotic birds we saw were the pigeons we’d often see waddling around. …

It doesn’t seem that long ago when I blogged about a dead Whale which had been washed up in Hillarys boat harbour just down the road from where we lived here in Quinns Rocks.
Back then, …

OK, so we’ve seen red-back spiders and plenty of parrots but last week we can add Whales onto our list of things that we’ve seen.
Junior had acquired 100 stars on his ’star chart’ so we …

Springtime in Perth brings with it many great things. Beautiful spring flowers in the park, cleaner homes and warmer weather.
Unfortunately it also brings with it Flies; and lots of them.
Apparently there are millions of flies …

Back in January I casually noted that you won’t find a red-back spider or similar deadly critter hidden around every corner.
Now we’re into October I thought I’d never get around to meeting anything that could …

I love Hillarys boat Harbour, it has to go down as one of the nicest, cleanest, most children friendly beaches I’ve ever seen.
Well, it would be if there wasn’t a four meter long great …

It has been really steamy over the last couple of days. The thermometer has been hitting 42 degrees Celsius (107 F in old money) during the day and hasn’t been dropping below 24 C (75 …

These little guys still amaze me.
We went for a trip to Lake Joondalup which is about ten minutes drive from our new house in Kinross.
It’s quite a popular hang out for families …

It’s two months to the day that we arrived here in Sunny Perth so I thought I’d celebrate the occasion by writing about ten things that I’ve noticed about that fantastic country that we now …

Many people are worried about living in, or visiting, Australia all because of its poisonous spiders. Is there really a reason for you to be worried? Could you be killed after being bitten by a …