Then Glenn had a turn and went even farther. As a wave passed, she would leap onto it and skim along on its crest for many yards. I was finally convinced to go into the water with Deirdre by her showing me how the boogie board works. We didn’t visit the zoo, but instead went hiking around Little Sirius Cove and up through the steep and jungly hills of Cremorne Point. We went to the Museum of Sydney, and then to the Taronga Zoo wharf.

I was eager to make amends with the Sydneysiders, and I was introduced to a journalist named Deirdre Macken from the Sydney Morning Herald. The guide seemed uncomfortable with my silence, so we rode the rest of the way to lunch in silence. I have no idea how long I slept in the car, but when I woke up, there was a heavy silence in the car. I was traveling with a young English photographer named Trevor Ray Hart, who was flying in from London. I had been planning to come out to start the traveling for this book, so this was a bonus trip. When you fly from North America to Australia, a day is taken away from you when you cross the international date line. It is a country that is still full of undiscovered stuff. The country of Australia is both staggeringly empty and packed with interesting things. Yet it teems with life in numbers uncounted. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, and climatically aggressive country. It has more things that will kill you than anywhere else.Īustralia is a country full of life that is difficult to believe exists in such an inhospitable environment. It is the home of the Great Barrier Reef, and the largest monolith, Ayers Rock. It is the only country that began as a prison, and the only one that is also a continent.Īustralia is a country full of strange and dangerous animals. We rarely pay attention to them, and this is strange considering they are a country that doesn’t misbehave and is peaceful and good.īecause we know so little about Australia, it is a country that is worth getting to know. Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 1Īustralia is a difficult country to keep track of. Insights on Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country

In a sunburned country by bill bryson