Terry Yager wrote:
> I just have this image of Oz as being some kinda sub-
> tropical 'paradise', interspersed with a fair amount
> of desert land (and of course, plenty of beaches for
> surfin' dude)!!!
Nope, it's not all Beaches, tropical weather & desert. Perhaps
what you need is a typical photo of a cold Melbourne morning.
Sure it's not quite as cold as Bendigo & there's other non-
snowed in places, which get colder than that too (Inland New
South Wales for example). Queensland/Northern Territory is
more your tropics - lots of rain in the summer kind of thing,
hot humid & muggy - when even Sydney can be. Melbourne has
it's humid days which can be quite bad too. In fact the
weather is so odd down this neck of the woods it can so easily
be Hot one day & wet & cold the next.
Tasmania is usually cooler as well. Forests with plenty of
ferns - Victoria has some of this too, though it's usually
confined on the mountains, though some ferny based plants are
found near sea level - just depends, usually mountains has
more due to cooler temeratures in which they can survive in.
Tasmania is more or less all over - a little bit like New
Zealand (from what I've seen on travel shows), though New
Zealand has it's own range of plant species which evolved
there.
But from what I've heard Australia is one of the most diverse
countries/contenant's in the world, having just about
everything from desert, tropics & cooler places down south.
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