Cairns Botanical Garden

I think we only added one species of birds to our list here.
They did have a good exhibit explaining how the continent of Australia has drifted around.
Five hundred million years ago Australia was glomed onto a single land mass called pangea
What I did discover, was that Australia was the last continent to touch Anarctica. Fifty million years ago they separated from the rest of the land masses and fifteen million years they briefly touched up against New Guinea. 
The aborigines have been here for fifty to sixty thousand years. 
Anyways they have had a lot of time to evolve plants and animals unique to this continent. And they share a bunch of animals and plants with New Guinea. 
Stay tuned for the next post explaining why hopping is more efficient than running.
This blog is being composed at a rest stop where we are waiting for a torrential rainfall to ease up.

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