The Palladian Traveler boards a state-of-the-art pontoon boat and glides deep into the Noosa Everglades to view first hand some of the 1,365 species of plant life and 700 native animals and birds that inhabit this UNESCO world heritage site.

Australia, the “Land Down Under,” where, according to Men at Work, “the women glow, the beer does flow and men [purportedly] chunder,” is the sixth largest country, by area, on the planet, but also the smallest of our seven continents. Confused? Don’t be.