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Australia   is a fascinating continent with amazing and unique wildlife.   Every biologist, and anyone interested in nature, should try to visit at least once.   I am fortunate to have both professional research interests and many friends there.   Most of these images were made in my spare time during a three-month research visit in late 2009.   I spent much of that time studying avian physiology in Wollongong, a university town on the southeast coast, a bit south of the bustling city of Sydney.   But I also had a several-week sojourn at a remote field station in the arid outback of western New South Wales, and a couple of weeks each in southwestern Western Australia and near Cairns in tropical north Queensland. Click on a thumbnail to see a larger picture. All images © Mark A. Chappell

red sand dune	Wombarra beach	Outback duststorm	Fowlers Gap sunrise	flooded creek	Little Beach	Wagga Wagga sunset
Nornalup Inlet	night sky, Fowlers Gap	Lower King sunset	storm at Two Peoples Bay	Cape York savannah	Daintree rainforest	Nornalup forest
sunset with gum trees	Fowlers Gap landscape	karri forest	mangrove forest	Wollongong sunrise	Queensland rockpool	Red tingle forest
green ringtail	Dainatree ringtail	brushtailed possum	coppery brushtail	striped possum	feathertailed glider	prehensile-tailed tree mouse
red kangaroo	western grey kangaroo	euro	red-legged pademelon	pretty-face wallaby	tamar wallaby	Lumholtz' tree kangroo
sugar glider	northern brown bandicoot	numbat	Gilbert's dragon	lace monitor	leaf-tailed gecko	Boyd's forest dragon
eastern water dragon	Jacky lizard	eastern blue-tongued skink	western shingleback	diamond python	death adder

Outback dawn

moonrise, Uluru

Australian birds...