Letter from Istari - Summer 2022-23
The wetland dried up leaving lots of food for the snakes, goannas, water rats and birds.
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Terry
Feb 8, 20231 min read
Istari 2023
Welcome to Istari 2023. Istari, the home of australianbushlife.com in the Clarence Valley of New South Wales, Australia. Istari is a Land...
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Ian
Dec 4, 20225 min read
Letter from Istari - December 2022
Spring is gone. The days are heating up, the goannas are out and about. Bells phase Goannas We have noticed two Bells Phase lace...
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Ian
Nov 27, 20221 min read
Crinkle bush
Crinkle bush (Lomatia silaifolia) flowers in late spring and summer.
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Ian
Oct 24, 20221 min read
Full streams and wet bush
After 85.5mm of rain over the recent rain event all the streams are flowing and the bush is wet. Thankfully no dangerous flooding.
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Ian
Nov 1, 202114 min read
Killing Cats Claw
... and other weeds The Australian bush is under constant threat of invastion from weeds of all types. There are a number on Istari...
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Ian
Sep 17, 20205 min read
Jack, Jill, Joey and winter friends
Winter at Istari with the scrub wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus) and other locals
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Ian
May 21, 20204 min read
Autumn ducklings and other regulars
Ducklings hatch and grow up while we isolate in the bush.
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Ian
Feb 14, 20205 min read
Bushfires Heat Koalas and Rain
The summer is almost over and it has rained. The fires have stopped. The days are almost constantly hot but unlike the later part of 2019,
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Ian
Oct 1, 20194 min read
The dry continues - fires, orchids and cockatoos
The dry continues in the Clarence. Although there has been some rain on the coast much of the valley is seeing little rain.
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Terry
Jul 11, 20192 min read
Winter 2019
The creek water refuge has now disappeared so we put a container of fresh water in the bush and set a camera.
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Ian
Aug 14, 20182 min read
Letter from Istari - Winter Dry
A few light frosts arrived in June and the grass died off. Then came the real frosts. It dropped below zero several days in a row,...
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Ian
Jul 28, 20182 min read
Land for Wildlife
Have you ever seen these signs - "Land for Wildlife". You'll see them beside country roads, usually in bush areas. We had seen them...
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Ian
Mar 29, 20181 min read
Narrow-leaved apple
One of our most common trees found growing around the house and surrounds is the narrow-leaved apple (angophora paludosa). It has had a huge
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Ian
Dec 1, 20173 min read
The young forest
The journey of regeneration from cleared to a young forest.
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Ian
Jun 14, 20172 min read
Rusty Trees
Black She-oak (allocasuarina littoralis) As the autumn moves into winter, along the roadsides and scattered throughout the bush, splashes...
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Ian
Dec 1, 20163 min read
Summer is here ...
Summer has arrived but thankfully the cicadas haven't started to 'sing' yet. The crunchy grass is finally beginning to grow again after...
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