I had barely spent two years in Australia before I went overseas again. I lived on many other islands and on the edge of at least two other deserts, and yet, if I had followed Goethe's famous 'Vierzeiler', I could have done all this right here in Australia.
.
Australia isn't just Sydney, the Opera House and the harbour, and the gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, nor is it all 'Crocodile Dundee', but something far bigger and better and far more wonderful. I haven't seen all that much of it - although I did manage to squeeze in some out-of-the way places like Mornington Island, Thursday Island, and King Island - and it's now too late to get too far from the nearest medical centre, but there's always YouTube to show me what I missed out on.
I'm going back to watching that YouTube video while you can click here to see what you missed out when you did not let us win that last war.
