Thorsborne Trail and Neruda

What better way to celebrate completing the PhD than a trip to Townsville, Australia to spend some time with Dipani. We traveled to Hinchinbrook Island and the Thorsborne Trail. It's a permit trail, so there was only a few others on it with us, and for the most part you'd never have known that anyone else was there. A mix of hiking in the forest and along beaches. Very beautiful, and even whimbrel was there - reminding me of Alaska!





Relaxing breakfasts on beaches watching colors change as the sun came up - espresso and bagels!




Warm water for swimming...


and the final few miles to the boat pick-up...highly recommended!

I want to tell you
the ocean knows this, that
life in its jewel boxes is
endless as the sand...

Neruda