Here is a shot that may have you thinking. "Gee that could be Saskatchewan!". Except for the fact that the ocean is less than 3 km from this spot. Australia is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all inhabited continents. The only place worse is Antarctica. 80% and the plants and animals here exist nowhere else in the world. The reason people joke of this country being "down under" is because their seasons and constellations are backwards from ours. They have creatures that bounce, fish that climb treees and crustacean shells that are so big a man can climb inside. So you can see that there is so much to see and learn here. It was worth the 34 hours travel time (20 hours flying time) and losing January 1st (seriously that day did not exist for us) to get here!