I enjoyed very much this journey through South Australian and Tasmania: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
Australia is a land which receives 150.000-200.000 immigrants each year: Christphe Mallet is a journalist who works at the SSBS Radio (programs of information for immigrants iun 68 languages).
Kerry Maguire has come from Ireland and has decided to stay in Australia: in her garden she sings an Irish song about the convicts who were deported to Australia.
But it's important remember that the Aboriginal people are living in Australia since 50.000 years : now the Aboriginal people are only 2,3 % of the total population of Australia.
In the southern coast of Australia Lissa Hissink (from Netherlands) and Fienn Maes (from Belgium) are making a hiking tour of 5 days (about 110 kilometers) to reach the Twelve Apostles (a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of Campbell National Park).
Nathan Valentine, his wife Jennifer Papin and their child Louis are travelling all around Australian wit their van and a trailer that they transform into tent with all (kitchen, water supply).
The Great Ocean Road is famous for its surfing beaches. There lives Xavier Morello and his family: Xavier has a collection of snakes, reptiles: besides he enjoys to walk in the bush and to show to his family the koalas or the echidnas and often goes to the kindergarten to present some wild animals to the children (the children can then touch and play with the animals).
In Tasmania Wade Anthony is taking care for the Tasmanian devils (the Devil's Cradle Sanctuary) and often release these animals in the nature.
David and Ea Lassen, a Danish couple has restored in Denmark a old fishing boat and crossed the Atlantic Ocean and the Panama Canal and finally reach the town of Franklin in Tasmania: they organize boat tours for the tourists.
Paul Pritchard, a famous rock climber and mountaineer came to Tasmania and attempted to clim the Totem Pole: he sustained a traumatic brain injury which left him hemiplegic. He has published books about his recovery and has stayed in Tasminian organizing climbing tours.
The photographer Loïic Le Guilly is taking pictures of the wildlife (wombats. Kangaroos) in the National parks of Tasmania.
In the Island Maria Holly Schorta tells the story of the island and shows to the visitors the wombats, the Eastern grey kangaroo): only the park rangers live in this islands, the visitors are allowed to camp some days.
I enjoyed the encounters of Ismaël with Lara, Jeannie and Phil Tilbrook in the Kangaroo Island , with Gavin Wanganeen and his family, with Daniel Motlop (the former Australian football player and delikatessen owner) and with Adam ( at the Bruny Island, Hobart and Mount Craddle Park); very nice encounters with very kind Australian men and women.