Even the local radio sounds American. In Australia, there is a golf course for every 12,000 people, a per-capita ratio believed to be the best in the world. On some courses, golfers can even encounter grazing kangaroos or wombat holes. Indeed, Greg Norman lights up when he talks about his native Australia. The flora and fauna are unique.
People are awestruck when they visit here.
When most Americans conjure up an image of Australia, they picture Crocodile Dundee cooking up a barbie on the front stoop of Sydney Opera House. But the country is enormous, and offers both the wildest of the wild as well two enormously civilized cities that rank among the finest places in the world. It is a given that the traveler will land in Sydney. Go ahead, it is a fine place. But in this review we turn to two other areas, the state of Queensland and the city of Melbourne.