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Australia « Thread Started on May 1, 2006, 6:00pm »
Australia is a continent and it's a country, too! It lies in the Southern Hemisphere in oceans deep and blue.
The equator rests above it, which is how it got its name. Australis stands for "southern" and "Down Under" means the same.
The Indian Ocean is on its left. The Pacific's on its right. And the stars strewn across its southern skies are big and bold and bright.
Indonesia, New Guinea and the Philippines rise above it on the globe. Antarctica's spread beneath it, in her winter coat of cold!
Australia's highest point is Mt. Kosciusko. It's one of only two places Australians will see snow. The other is Tasmania, both an island and a state but to get there you must navigate the waves of the Bass Strait.
Lake Eyre is the lowest point in South Australia's deepy depths. The "Outback" in its interior is grazing land and yet, most people live in the cities that lie along her shores. Leaving the Outback far less peopled and belonging Out of Doors.
Australians make their money with wheat, wool, metals, ore and honey. Then there's sugarcane, cereal, fruits and barley, cattle, cotton, poultry, pigs and yet, hardly does that cover all they buy and sell for tourists are their trade as well.
The Great Barrier Reef off Queensland's coast is a favorite tourist spot, with over 1200 miles of coral reefs and all the fish it's got. Coral colors everywhere, over 300 species are growing there, in this natural aquarium, they all share there in King Neptune's, under water lair!
Olga National Park and Ayer's Rock in the Northern Territory, is the largest monolith it's said where in its caves the Aborigines told their stories.
Deserts, grasslands and rock ranges, Australia's a landscape of many changes. With beaches, rain forests, islands and dunes, its climate keeps you guessing all afternoon.
Covering three quarters of the country grow Acacia and Eucalyptus Trees. So, it's no surprise, most certainly, that the golden wattle acacia has come to be its national flower, it's tops in their botany.
Australia's made up of six states, let me name them for ya' mates! South Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria!
But wait! There's more to Australia than these six states there's nine territories as well, I'll enumerate! Attached to the mainland she has two of these, The Australian Capital and The Northern Territories.
However, that still leaves seven more, lying off her coasts and shores. There's Christmas and Norfolk Island and The Heard McDonald and The Coco Islands. Count the Ashmore and Cartier Islands as one and that's seven of the nine and we're nearly done. Now, Add "The Australian Antarctic Territory" and the Island Territory of the Coral Seas! And that's count 'em, eight and NINE, respectively!
Boomerangs and Cockatoo, Australia's got a lot to do camel riding,
horse racing too rugby, soccer and Outback barbeques.
Waltzing Matilda's, a well known Australian song but it is not Australia's anthem, if you thought that, you're wrong! Her national anthem's called, "Advance Australia Fair." You hear it played at all major events held there!
Australia's culture is very, rich, she's got a lot to share. You find it all about you why, it's here and then it's there. For Melbourne, in Victoria,
is home to her ballet.
And Sydney's Great Opera House plays music night and day. Well, Hobart's Theatre Royal entertains in many ways, as does Adelaide's Festival of Arts with music, dance and plays!
Canberra is this nation's capital but each state has there own as well! There's Perth in Western Australia. Hobart in Tasmania. Adelaide in South Australia. Melbourne in Victoria. Sydney in New South Whales And Brisbane in Queensland could tell you tales!
Wallabie and Kangaroo Australia's just a natural zoo. Wombat, whale, ant eater too, parrot and possum hanging out with you!
Koala bear climb Eucalyptus Trees chewing on their fragrant leaves.
Penguin,gecko, tuna and turtle populate a land that's dry yet fertile!
As the Kookaburra bird sits and laughs at me. And the lyrebird sing songs, some in mimicry!
Hissing snakes and spiders too some of them want a bite of you!
Emus are birds but they don't fly, nor do the cassowary who pass you by, Unlike the Black Swan swimming quite nearby. or the wandering albatross, who fill the sky!
But, lookout for shark and stinging fish like stingray and lots of jelly fish! Yet, worse than these has to be The blue ringed octopus, whose sting's deadly!
Platypus and dolphin play out in the bay, Olympic swimming throughout the day. Salt water crocodiles crawl away along the shore and down the waterway. They're looking for snacks as they slap and snap beware of them for they sometimes nap.
But, more dangerous than these all just may be The dingos who eat ferociously they eat so much carnivorously Some critters almost ceased to be.
Tasmanian devils, wolves and mutton birds running, howling, flying, heard inhabit Australia's smallest state. Yes, Tasmania's unique make no mistake!
From her Boomerang to her Kangaroo, From her Koala Bear to her ground, bound Emu, Australia's home to so, much wonder, that it's hard to leave this land, down under!
Still, goodbye for now and for today though remember like the boomerang you toss away, we too, will return here, and to you again Someday!
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