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Alert Eastern Grey kangaroo with juvenile.  Snowy Mountains, NSW

Wow. Where to begin? Australia is one BIG island. Actually, it's a continent, of course, and a very complex one in terms of plants and animals. Although we spent over 8 months here during our cruising, we visited only a very small part of this country that is as large as the United States.

For Australian animal identification we used several different guides:

Birds of Australia by Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day; Princeton University Press, 1999

A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia by Peter Menkhorst and Frank Knight; Oxford University Press, 2004

Encyclopedia of Australian Wildlife by Steve Parish and Pat Slater; Steve Parish Publishing, Australia

Our information on the plants of Australia came from brochures and information signs in the parks that we visited, plus tidbits picked up here and there in books. We apologize for the scanty flora page but there was just too much to learn about the animals without getting into detail on the botanical side of things!

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