Featured Image: Photo by Andrew Watson, Palm Cockatoo, Chilli Beach, Iron Range National Park, Cape York Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 21 December 2025 Cape York Birding 2025, Lakefield and Iron Range National Parks Main Points Preamble Introduction Inala Nature Tour Day 1 Cairns to Musgrave Roadhouse, Golden-shouldered Parrot Day 2 Lakefield National Park, Red Goshawk, Star Finch Day …
Norfolk Island Postcard
Featured Image: Vista to Bird Rock from Captain Cook Monument Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 27 July 2025 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series …
Madagascar Wildlife Adventure 2
Featured Image: Tails-aloft beside the Berenty Spiny Forest, Berenty Private Reserve Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 23 March 2025 Madagascar Wildlife Adventure: Part 2 Ankarafantsika, Berenty, Andasibe-Mantadia Why go to Madagascar? Look at any map of Africa and the eye is drawn to down south to this big island off the east coast, Madagascar. What is it? Geographic isolation …
Madagascar Wildlife Adventure 1
Featured Image: Baobabs in Classic Dry Baobab Forest, Mosa Reserve near Ifaty Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 23 February 2025 Madagascar Wildlife Adventure, Part 1 Ranamofana, Isalo, Ifaty Why go to Madagascar? Look at any map of Africa and the eye is drawn to down south to this big island off the east coast, Madagascar. What is it? Geographic …
Chinese Ceramics Treasures
Featured Image: Detail from Vase with wucai polychrome decoration of one hundred deer motif, Wanlai reign, Ming dynasty 1573-1620. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 October 2024 My first visit to Taiwan was permeated with ignorance, which stimulated me to write articles because Taiwan fascinated me in unusual ways. The first article First Visit to Taiwan summarised what I …
Snail Lane Taiwan
Featured Image: A colourful snail from Snail Lane, Tainan, Taiwan Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 12 August 2024 My first visit to Taiwan was permeated with ignorance, which stimulated me to write articles because Taiwan fascinated me in unusual ways. The first article First Visit to Taiwan summarised what I thought I discovered. The second article, though about Snail …
Kruger National Park Safari
Featured Image: White Rhino in the Bush. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 27 July 2024 This is the seventh article in a series on Southern Africa inspired by a birding trip to Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls with Rockjumper and two safaris to Chobe National Park in Botswana with Kalahari Tours and Kruger National Park in South Africa with …
Chobe National Park, Camping Safari
Featured Image: Coming Away from the River and the Mud Wallow, Chobe National Park, Botswana. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 17 June 2024 This is the sixth article in a series on Southern Africa inspired by a birding trip to Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls with Rockjumper and two safaris to Chobe National Park in Botswana with Kalahari Tours …
First Visit to Taiwan
Featured Image: Taiwan birding in rice fields near Beitou Taipei, on the opposite side of Beitou MRT Station from the hot springs and the mountains. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 21 May 2024 My first visit to Taiwan was permeated with ignorance, which stimulated me to write articles because Taiwan fascinated me in unusual ways. The first article First …
Emily Kam Kngwarray Painter, 1914-1996
Featured Image: Detail from Wild Yam V 1995, Hassall Collection Sydney, 153 x 243 cm Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 March 2024 When I was at school (a very long time ago) the corridors were festooned with dark dusty copies of impressionists and probably even a Vermeer. When I first went to Paris, I was gobsmacked by the …
Southern African Safari, Large Raptors
Featured image: A kettle of vultures both Lappett-faced and White-backed Vultures rising together on a thermal on a rural highway outside of Solitaire in the Namib-Naukluft Park. We saw kettles of vultures several times in the morning. The vultures need to gain height to begin the business of searching for dead animals. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 February …
Safari to Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls, Part 2
Featured image: Spotted Hyena in Waterhole, Central Etosha National Park, Namibia, 6 October 2023 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 2 January 2024 This is the fourth article in a series on Southern Africa inspired by a birding trip to Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls with Rockjumper and two safaris to Chobe National Park in Botswana with Kalahari Tours and …
Safari to Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls, Part 1
Featured image: Lesser Flamingo, Walvis Bay, Namibia, 2 October 2023 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 11 December 2023 This is the third article in a series on Southern Africa inspired by a birding trip to Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls with Rockjumper and two safaris to Chobe National Park in Botswana with Kalahari Tours and Kruger National Park in …
Welwitschia
Featured image: Intrepid Welwitschia Hunters in the Namib Desert, Namibia, 1 October 2023 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 24 November 2023 This is the second article in a series on Southern Africa inspired by a birding trip to Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls with Rockjumper and two safaris to Chobe National Park in Botswana with Kalahari Tours and Kruger …
A Lark in Africa
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 8 November 2023 This is the first article in a series on Southern Africa inspired by a birding trip to Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls with Rockjumper and two safaris to Chobe National Park in Botswana with Kalahari Tours and Kruger National Park in South Africa with Lion Roar Safaris. The articles in order …
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