I enjoyed this journey in Australia: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
Some words about sports in Sydney: early in the morning Brian Daley is practicing surfing: the French Mathieu and Riad practice cycling.
Besides there are many swimming pools in Australia and Eammano Manakon manages a team of underwater rugby: Viktoriia Halytska, a young Ukrainian student who has practiced underwater swimming in her country enjoins now the underwater rugby.
Austrial is very interesting for long travels with a caravan, Clothilde Robine and Aleksander Vlahohic are travelling along the coast: Clothilde takes advantages of her working-holiday permit for working in some places and later travel through the country.
About 85 % of the Australian population live near the coasts: Sally enjoys swimming in the sea in the early morning, then she looks for the fishermen, buys fishes and then goes to her farm: there she breeds dairy cows and produces salted butter.
Ann Jenkis , a retiree, enjoys running along the coast: with other women she runs 60 kilometers along the coast (Coastrek rising funds for the Heart Foundation).
Then we visit the French Island at 60 kilometers from Sydney: Scott Couts , a naturalist guide is observing the fauna and pays a visit to Lois Airs, one of the farmers in the island: the population of koala has increased from 6.000 to 8.000 koalas.
In the same island Sam Brightand his wife Loz Hunt manages a vacation camp (under tents): they have solar panels for the power supply and recollect the rain waters (water storage).
About bush fires (2019 was a terrific year) Christopher Jakobi explains that the fire is part of the Australian ecosystem: some endemic plants release their seeds after the fires.
Rebecca Miller and Andre Messine, two botanists are recollecting samples of the endemic plants and store the seeds which may be used if the plant species begins to be rare.
In the National Park of Beowa the ranger Sarah Ferguson explains that the fires destroyed many trees and bushes: they clean the soils and let space for the young plants who are growing.
Mike Irvine, the ranger of the Cape Conran Coastal Park explains that the bush fires have effects on the fauna: the kangaroos and wallabies escape, the wombat and reptiles make holes in the grounds, the birds fly away: but when the fires have passed the foxes, and cats arrive to conquest the empty spaces and are great pradators.
In Melbourne there are people of 140 different nationalities: we meet Maria Bakalidou, the coordinator iof the Greek community: most of the Greek persons have arrive at Melbourne atfer the second world war. On the 25th of March the Greek associations and schools make a great parade for the Independence day of Greece: the children wear traditional Greek costumes.
Besides Brad Wilson is ineterested in the past of of Melbourne, he manages the "Little Lon" , a bar with a little distillery of gin, Brad goes often to the old prison of Melbourne and uses a cell for his barrels of gin.
Enjoyed very the encounters of Sophie with Anthony Stephens, with Simon Gilkes and Ella Stephens ( the sailingboat tour, the walk through Sydney), with Hamish Peter , the costumer of the Sydney Opera, with the guide of the Harbour Bridge, with Jacob Morris (the aboriginal singer and dancer), with Noémie Seck (the ecologist), with Daniel Kallstrom in Phillip Island, with the cheese vendor in Melbourne, and with Dan Hunter in Birregurra (the harvest of vegetables and the vegetables dish); very nice encounters with very kind Australian men and women.