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The Queen Victoria Building, is a late nineteenth-century building designed by the architect George McRae in the central business district of Sydney, Australia. [Source]

Queen Victoria Building

Australia’s Lord Howe Island is one of the world’s great vacation destinations. The breath taking beauty and tropical ambience will entrance you from the moment you arrive. No wonder it has been given a World Heritage listing. A week or two at Milky Way Villas at Old Settlement beach on Lord Howe Island will long be remembered as your “holiday of a lifetime”. Arriving guests often greet us with the words “we always vowed to come back again and at last we’ve made it”. [Source]

Superb Lord Howe Island

Bouddi National Park is located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, 46 km northeast of Sydney. A section of the national park extends into the sea creating fully protected land, shore and marine habitats. The Park contains one of the last temperate rainforests on the Central Coast, Fletchers Glen. [Source]

Liesegang Rings at Bouddi National Park

Positano was a port of the Amalfi Republic in medieval times, and prospered during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the town had fallen on hard times. More than half the population emigrated, mostly to Australia. [Source]

The Amalfi Coast Drive

This is also found in Australia. It is called the Gwardar, but it is more commonly known as the Western Brown Snake. So far we can see that Australia is chock full of venomous snakes. 2 out of the worlds top 10 so far. [Source]

Pseudonaja Nuchalis Snake

Most venomous snake in the world is none other than the Spotted Brown Snake. They can be found in Australia. [Source]

Spotted Brown Snake

The Great Ocean Road is an Australian National Heritage listed 243-kilometre (151 mi) stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Warrnambool. The Great Ocean Road, officially starts at Torquay and travels 243 kilometres westward to finish at Allansford near Warrnambool, the largest city along the road. [Wiki]

Great Ocean Road

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia. And this is one of the Lighthouse in sydney. Beautiful view. [Source]

Beautiful Sydney Light House

Sitting on a 900 sqm block, A’Beckett Tower is a prototype for high-density residual infill. The transition from podium to tower is treated non-traditionally, with a thin veneer of apartments surrounding the carpark, which is accessed via elevators for cars, liberating the street front from ramps. [Source]

A'Beckett Tower

Continuing a tradition that has seen them develop some of the most iconic residential buildings in Melbourne, Arno Corporation, developers of Isis, The Face and Momentum bring their distinctive style to Orbis, South Melbourne. [Source]

Orbis South Melbourne - Apartment

111 Eagle Street is the centerpiece of a trio of towers known as Riverside campus. It occupies a site that includes loading docks and parking access to the basement of the existing neighboring towers on each side. The important restriction site was the lack of support points due to existing impediments. [Source]

One One Eagle Street

The Whitsunday Islands are a collection of continental islands of various sizes off the central coast of Queensland, Australia. The traditional owners of the area are the Ngaro People and the Gia People (Birri Gubba Language Group), the Juru Clan of which has the only recognised Native Title in the Region. [Wiki]

Beautiful Whitsunday Islands

The Gouldian Finch, also known as the Lady Gouldian Finch, Gould's Finch or the Rainbow Finch, is a colourful passerine bird endemic to Australia. The Gouldian Finch was described by British ornithological artist John Gould in 1844 and named after his wife Elizabeth. It is also known in America as the Rainbow Finch, Gould's Finch, or the Lady Gouldian Finch. Both sexes are brightly colored with black, green, yellow, and red markings. The females tend to be less brightly colored. One major difference between the sexes is that the male's chest is purple, while the female's is a lighter mauve. [Wiki]

Beautiful Gouldian Finch

Whitehaven Beach is a 7 km stretch along Whitsunday Island. The island is accessible by boat from the mainland tourist ports of Airlie Beach and Shute Harbour, as well as Hamilton Island. The beach was awarded Queensland's Cleanest Beach in Keep Australia Beautiful's 2008 Clean Beach Challenge State Awards. The beach was named and discovered in 1879 by Staff Commander EP Bedwell. Being one of the many names from the then English county of Cumberland Bedwell brought to the area following James Cook's 1770 naming of the island group The Cumberland Islands. [Wiki]

Amazing Whitehaven Beach

Lake Hillier, is a lake on Middle Island, the largest of the islands and islets that make up the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia. The colour is permanent, and does not alter when the water is taken in a container. The length of the lake is about six hundred metres. The lake is surrounded by a rim of sand and a dense woodland of paperbark and eucalyptus trees with a narrow strip of sand dunes covered by vegetation separating it to the north from the Southern Ocean. Despite the unusual hue, the lake exhibits no known adverse effects upon humans. From above the lake appears a solid bubble gum pink, but from the shoreline it looks more like a clear pink hue is in the water. [Wiki]

Amazing Colorful Lake Hillier

Lady Musgrave Island is a 14 hectares (35 acres) coral cay on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, with a 1,192 hectares (2,950 acres) surrounding reef. Lady Musgrave Island, and the immediate surrounds, is a national park and can be reached by excursion boat from the Town of 1770. It is also part of the Capricornia Cays Important Bird Area. Lady Musgrave Island is the most intensively used of the camping islands within the Capricorn Bunker group, due to its protected anchorage within a semi-enclosed lagoon and a regular ferry service. More than 10,000-day-visitors were brought to the island by commercial tourism operators during 1997. In addition, 1,278 campers visited the island for 8,008 camper nights and there were an estimated 5840 visitors from recreational boats during that year. [Wiki]

Amazing Lady Musgrave Island

Eureka Tower is a 297.3-metre (975 ft) skyscraper located in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. When measured either by the height of its roof, or by the height of its highest habitable floor, Eureka Tower was the tallest residential building in the world when completed. It is also currently the building with the most floors available for residential occupancy in the world. [Wiki]

Amazing Eureka Tower

Nan Tien Temple is a Buddhist temple complex located in the industrial suburb of Berkeley. It was funded by and constructed under the auspices of the Mahayana Buddhist sect known as Fo Guang Shan, and completed in 1995. The Nan Tien complex was built using traditional techniques and materials by Chinese craftsmen, but with numerous modern features. Occupying a semi-rural hillside site several square kilometres in size, and set amidst landscaped gardens. [Wiki]

Amazing Nan Tien Temple

The Rainbow Lorikeet,is a species of Australasian parrot found in Australia, eastern Indonesia (Maluku and Western New Guinea), Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Rainbow Lorikeets are true parrots, within the Psittacoidea superfamily in the order Psittaciformes. [Wiki]

Beautiful Rainbow Lorikeet

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