This Wondrous Land Australia

The wonders of this wondrous Land Australia From tiny honey possum to red roo eight foot tall One of the world's most amazing countries If not the most amazing land of all. A big wide Land of varying degrees of climate In the northern tropics it's warm all year round And in parts of new south Wales and Victoria In Winter months snow on the higher ground. The Land of more than eight hundred bird species Home of the kookaburra and emu The pleasant fluting of the white backed magpie The grating calls of the white cockatoo. The land of the burrowing marsupial wombat He excavates a huge den in the ground The numbats of outback western Australia In hollow logs in dry lands can be found. The dingo the only wild dog of Australia A sheep killer or so it has been said The farmer try tp poison or to shoot him But dingo always that one step ahead. The dry brown lands better known as the outback Stretch off the highway far as you can see The rainforests of northern New South Wales and Queensland In this great Land of diverse scenery. North in Kakadu known as land of the Dreamtime Lives the world's oldest indigenous race of man For sixty thousand years their home Australia By any standards quite a lengthy span. In south Australia in the ancient Coorong In salt pan country where only saltbush grow A land untamed by man of rugged beauty Where black tribes fished and hunted centuries ago. The mountain eucalypt forests of new south Wales and Victoria The treeless outback wide and flat and brown In Central and western Australia Six hundred miles to the nearest country town. The wonders of this wondrous Land Australia From two inch creature to the eight foot tall One of the world's most amazing Countries If not the most amazing one of all.