Australia - I LOVE YOU!

Happy Australia Day - In advance :)

Australia Day is a week away and my heart desires to express my love for the beautiful country in which I live.  There is nowhere else in the whole world that I would rather live than by white beaches, amongst red dirt, under the hot sun and blue skies and with beautiful flora and fauna. 

Australia I LOVE you. 

There will be many more summer nights spent with a cold beverage on a beach towel,

Many Autumn days involving tranquil walks in John Forrest National park,

Many winters sitting in the car at kings park watching the rain fall down and hit beautiful Perth City,

And many springs visiting Margaret River wineries.

  I love a sunburnt country,
  A land of sweeping plains,
  Of ragged mountain ranges,
  Of drought and flooding rains,
  I love her far horizons,
  I love her jewel sea,
  Her beauty and her terror -
  The wide brown land for me.

Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.