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It's always most difficult to talk about your home, but I'll take up the challenge and try and describe my birthplace, Australia, to you.

Australia May 2001

Nickjenkins
2003-11-20 15:37:40

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around the Cradle Mountain National Park and, as I remember from a trip when I was twelve, the unsurpassed seafood.

Darwin, Nothern Territory - the only capital I've never visited but people that have tell me its worth the trip. Again wilderness features highly on the Northern Territory's list of attractions with the World Heritage listed Kakkadu national park and Katherine Gorges being the main attraction. Others include Alice Springs and Uluru (Ayers Rock), the Olgas (mountains) and crocodile feeding tours specially designed for American tourists.

Adelaide, South Australia - the quiet southern capital of Australia's central state is a cultural haven in a rather dry countryside. Adelaide's attractions include the annual Fringe Festival, the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute and the botanic gardens. South Australian attractions include the Barossa and Claire valleys (wine growing), the tiny ethnic German town of Hahndorf and the vast stretches of the treeless Nullarbor plain.

Rule Number three for Oz - make sure you've got time to see everything. It's a big place.

If I had to put together a must see list for Australia it would be difficult but it would probably go something like this : pet a kangaroo; climb the Sydney Harbour bridge; learn to surf; see Uluru, the Snowy's, Kakkadu and the Daintree; drive across the Nullarbor and around the Great Ocean Road; eat Spanish in Sydney, Italian in Melbourne, Japanese in Perth and Thai in Adelaide; dive on the Great Barrier reef, hike Cradle Mountain and sail the Whitsundays; drink cabernet in the Hunter, shiraz in the Barossa and semillion in Margaret River; dance in Sydney's mardi-gras, climb the Arapiles and see a corroboree. After that you'd better stop by Fremantle or Watson's Bay for a beer in the sunshine and give me a ring because if you beat me to it - I'm going to be as jealous as hell.

2 May 2001 19:13:51

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