They grow 'em bigger down there.

Several times during the trip, upon hearing that we were from the American west, the Aussies would make a comment along the lines of "This landscape must seem very familiar to you." I guess that would be true of the geology; sandstone escarpments and gorges, the desert of the center are all familiar in a way. But the plants and animals are so different, it would be hard to confuse the two. We certainly don't have anything like these big silver cycads growing where we live.




And we certainly don't have termite mounds like these in the U.S. either.