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Firefly


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Had this sent to me by email today.

Makes me wonder if it is accurate but blimey, we rock don't we. smilesmile

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Gday...

No wonder it seems I never finish travelling biggrin biggrin biggrin blankstare

......and OUR country is better than all that lot in there biggrin

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The mind boggles to think we can gobble up all those other countries and still have room for dessert....



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To the best of my (limited) knowledge that comparison looks pretty valid.

And we have less than a third of one percent of the world's population!

On just about every official measure of comparative well-being good ol'Assie comes up right near the top of the list! And we still complain!!!

Have a look at which countries are in dire financial straits and compare it to the big one!

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My overseas friends ask why we don't travel abroad.

You could do the lot of them before you made a dent in Oz ay. wink



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Spot on Fly  AND  we are much safer here anyway.



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Except for midgies and drop bears ay. winkwink



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Except for midgies and drop bears ay. winkwink

 Don't forget the @#$%$ Wombat's!

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Forgot about those pesky little things mate.



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If all wombats were as tame as our Womby, they'd be pretty cool.



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rockylizard wrote:

Gday...

No wonder it seems I never finish travelling biggrin biggrin biggrin blankstare

......and OUR country is better than all that lot in there biggrin

Cheers

John

 Oh so true mate, oh so true.

Boroma, my favourite animal is the wombat, shhhh don't tell anyone.



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Boroma, my favourite animal is the wombat, shhhh don't tell anyone.

 Your secret is safe with me FF.



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Thanks B.



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its funny, when over in UK a few years ago now with dad,
talking to his rellies over there, they couldnt fathem how we
can travel 600-1000 ks in one day.. they do 70 between towns over there
and call it a day!!

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And yet we are only the 6th largest country in the world

1.Russia: 17,075,200 km2 (6,591,027 mi2)
2.Canada: 9,984,670 km2 (3,854,082 mi2)
3.United States: 9,631,418 km2 (3,717,727 mi2)
4.China: 9,596,960 km2 (3,704,426 mi2)
5.Brazil: 8,511,965 km2 (3,285,618 mi2)
6.Australia: 7,686,850 km2 (2,967,124 mi2)
7.India: 3,287,590 km2 (1,269,009 mi2)
8.Argentina: 2,766,890 km2 (1,068,019 mi2)
9.Kazakhstan: 2,717,300 km2 (1,048,877 mi2)
10.Algeria: 2,381,740 km2 (919,352 mi2)
11.Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 2,345,410 km2 (905,328 mi2)
12.Mexico: 1,972,550 km2 (761,404 mi2)
13.Saudi Arabia: 1,960,582 km2 (756,785 mi2)
14.Indonesia: 1,919,440 km2 (740,904 mi2)
15.Sudan: 1,886,068 km2 (728,215 mi2)
16.Libya: 1,759,540 km2 (679,182 mi2)
17.Iran: 1,648,000 km2 (636,128 mi2)
18.Mongolia: 1,564,116 km2 (603,749 mi2)
19.Peru: 1,285,220 km2 (496,095 mi2)
20.Chad: 1,284,000 km2 (495,624 mi2)

Brazil surprised me.

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All so mind blowing isn't it.

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as a good mate of ours would have said "Crikey!!"

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According to that map I travelled from Spain to Poland in a week.
I drove through monsoonal storms in SA and Qld, dry farmland in parts of SA and NSW, floods and green lush country in northern NSW and central Qld. Such a diverse country. Summer one end, and winter the other. Rain and storms on the eastern side, and hot and dry in the west.
The country changes about every 100km, huge flat regions, hilly, steep and windy ranges to reveal yet another beautiful section of country. No wonder we never get sick of travelling it. That's Australia.

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 sure is Fly .. I'm sitting here in Bulgaria without a passport .. I never got to travel overseas and now its come to us ..



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Now I know why I am not interested in overseas travel, It's all here anyway. Very interesting Firefly.

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Dusty, FF & Bor like your comments about wombats, and FF I'm gonna tell biggrinbiggrin



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No point in travelling overseas if one has no desire to but I believe it is very beneficial to do so. It is a valuable experience to be the foreigner, the one who talks with the strange accent, in some cases looks different and speaks a foreign language. We become more understanding and less xenophobic for the experience.

It gives us a better perspective of where we really stand on the world stage, being only one and a half percent of the world's economy and a third of one percent of its population. We do not get much coverage in the world media mainly because, as travel writer Bill Bryson has pointed out, "We behave ourselves" (we don't start wars or stage revolutions)

While there is some wonderful sight-seeing in this country (our beaches are without equal) other places also have some truly awesome scenery, USA for example with its Alaskan wilderness, the thermal regions of Yellowstone National Park, The Grand Canyon, the gobsmacking beauty of Yosemite, the majesty of the Grand Tetons, to name just a few.

That said, I point out that I'm as proud an Australian as any member of this forum.

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You're right Jim, I appreciate Australia much more after only a couple of forays into the Great Overseas. Staying here now though.

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jonathan wrote:

 sure is Fly .. I'm sitting here in Bulgaria without a passport .. I never got to travel overseas and now its come to us ..

 confuse



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Gerty Dancer wrote:

I appreciate Australia much more after only a couple of forays into the Great Overseas.

 Right on cue Gert!... I deliberately left that out to give the opportunity to someone else to make that very valid point!



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There is another one of these postcards - showing the USA inside Oz - mindboggling when you think fo the kilometres we travel, with sometimes nothing as far as the eye can see -
stood on top of mountains and not seen any sort of habitation at all - just land neverending! Love it!

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One day maybe I would travel abroad but to be honest, I have no real desire.

I have only just started looking around Oz and I have so much of that I want to see first.

Jon, that describes it perfectly. smilesmile



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jimricho wrote:
jonathan wrote:

 sure is Fly .. I'm sitting here in Bulgaria without a passport .. I never got to travel overseas and now its come to us ..

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I'm still in Aussie land.



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I'm still in Aussie land.

 Me too and this is where I intend to stay.....



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another one

Makes you wonder doesn't it

 

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