A rather lame heading really because Jeff didn't bring any dog with him, let along a dog called Toto. But he does come from Kansas - Manhattan Kansas, can you believe. Jeff is one of the contributing authors to my book, Animals and Tourism, Understanding Diverse Relationships (to be published in April for those who have been impatiently scanning Amazon) and he was in Australia to do some work for an ecotourism business in Melbourne and so another colleague and I invited him up to Lismore for a few days so we could work on a research project we hope to carry out later in the year which might also lead to an application for a large grant. He stayed at Larnook last Tuesday and Wednesday.
Jeff is interested in wildlife tourism and its conservation outcomes and so last Wednesday we spent the day visiting Fleay's Wildlife Park and Currumbin Wildlife Park in the southern Gold Coast and then finished the day off with a walk on the Bar Mountain track in the Border Ranges National Park, about 30kms north west of our place. By the time we got up to the little picnic area where you park your car the weather had changed dramatically. We went from 29 degrees at the entry to the national ark to 20 degrees as we climbed up in altitude. It was also misty and we expected to see a silverback mouton gorilla around every bend in the track. Great day!
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