... and Australia has a wealth of unique and beautiful wildlife.  Tonight I'm lucky enough to be "camped" out at a nature preserve north of Adelaide, where I've been just admiring all the cute marsupials.  Yes, a preserve with broadband internet access isn't exactly roughing it.

  

  

Helene is doing a Master's degree in Botany here in Adelaide (what a setting!) and I got to spend some time with her both on the lovely campus



and at one of the places she does research, the Adelaide Botanical Gardens.

  

Right now I'm heading north en route to the "Red Center" of Australia, the heart of the Outback.  Next stop, Uluru!