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Australia: land of contrast – a photo essay

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© Laurence Norah - findingtheuniverse.com : This is Uluru at sunset. It's a bloody long way from anywhere, and it's “just a rock”... but wow. What a rock!
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© Laurence Norah - findingtheuniverse.com : This is Uluru at sunset. It's a bloody long way from anywhere, and it's “just a rock”... but wow. What a rock!

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  • © Laurence Norah - findingtheuniverse.com : This is Uluru at sunset. It's a bloody long way from anywhere, and it's “just a rock”... but wow. What a rock!
  • Australia is home to one of the worlds greatest road trips, along the Great Ocean Road in the state of Victoria. These rock outcrops are part of the Twelve Apostles, which is arguably the highlight of the road trip.
  • When I thought of Australia before I visited, lush verdant forest was not the first thing that sprang to mind. I was, it turns out, entirely wrong. Forests like this coastal rainforest in the Otways are spectacularly green and eminently explorable. Hurrah!
  • Now this is more the Australia that I imagined, although I never thought that the outback could be quite so weirdly colourful. This is the Painted Desert, just outside the underground mining towm of Coober Pedy. It's not hard to see where the name came from!
  • Won weekly Times Photography competition : The massive scale of the Australian outback means that there is plenty of room for plopping a bit of art here and there without bothering anyone.
  • Castle Rock, NSW : I mentioned mountains I believe. This is the view from the top of the “Castle” in Morten National Park across to the New South Wales coastline. This walk was probably one of the toughest day hikes I've ever done,
  • The most immense storm ever hit us shortly after. My tent was washed away. Being British, it would be remiss of me to talk about a place without mentioning the weather. Outback storms can be fierce and seriously dramatic – as this one was! The brunt of it hit camp seconds after I got this shot, and washed my tent away. I slept in the car.
  • Beach at Francois Perron National Park : The outback is a red place. Really really red. In this shot the red sand of the outback meets the sea in Francois Perron National Park, on the Western Australian coastline. The black line along the coastline is a flock of comorants. WA is the less popular coastline in Australia for travellers, but it really deserves some serious attention.
  • Hellfire Bay : Speaking of beaches, Australia has no shortage of these, with some seriously impressive beaches to be found all around its coastline. This is Hellfire Bay in the Cape Le Grand National Park in Western Australia.
  • © Laurence Norah - findingtheuniverse.com : Australia is a place with an incredible cultural history, having been populated by the Aboriginal people for over 40,000 years before the white man rocked up and, well. History does not paint a pretty picture. Rock art like this can be found in all sorts of places, and it is truly fascinating stuff.
  • Speaking of art, here's another wacky bit of outback sculpture, found out on the Oodnadatta Track in South Australia. This one is called Planehenge.
  • Fitzroy falls, NSW : Sure, Australia can't compete with other countries when it comes to waterfall scale, but what it lacks in size, it more than makes up for in availability. If you like a good waterfall, then you'll find plenty to get your waterfall on down under!
  • I have to admit, I was a bit of a fan of the outback. This is the wave rock, a giant rock formation that looks like a frozen wave. There is all sorts of science behind its formation, but really, what you'll want to do when you visit is pretend you're surfing it. Far more fun than reading about geology.
  • Sunrise over the sea
  • Sunset, Lagoon Beach
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