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Captain James Cook became the first European to step ashore in Queensland. The date was May 24, 1770 and to mark that historic event, this delightdful settlement was named after the year of his landing. So much water surrounds this town, resulting in numerous water activites - the mighty Larc, jet skiing. Off shore sits Lady Musgrave Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Turtles laying eggs, hatchlngs waddling to sea. Swimming up close to turtles. Celebrations every year to mark Cook's landing. Walks, kangaroo sanctuaries, home distilleries.

Travel in Australia is opening up. Features the Great Barrier Reef, Lady Musgrave Island, Lord Howe Island, Dubbo, Lightning Ridge, Broken Hill, Echuica,. Phillip Island, Ipswich.

LIGHTNING RIDGE: Characters of the Outback, larger than life. Down a black opal mine with jack hammer-wielding miner Vicki Bokros. THE GRAWIN - A rough and ready mining community west of the Ridge. NARRAN LAKES: Flooded for the first time in 10 years attracting thousands of waterbirds. Reminders of past aboriginal inhabitants. WALGETT: Town hero singer Jimmy Little remembered in song by his daughter Frances. CORINDA: The day singer David Bowie came to this tiny town to record a pop clip remembered with an annual festival, LET'S DANCE.

Australia's most terrifying creatures including crocodiles and snakes.

Some of the more unusual deadly destinations and creatures of Australia in this episode, including the cassowary and Lake Eyre.

We take a closer look at some of Australia's most iconic animals and how dangerous they can really be, such as Kangaroos and Tassie Devils.

A true contrast of sand and sea, from a crossing of the Simpson Desert to some of the deadliest undersea creatures.

South Australia. Famous Vineyards, the Eyre Peninsula, and Adelaide Also Burke shire on the Gulf of Carpentaria. and the Plastic Free boy.

Australia's wildest weather. Killer Kangaroos. Emu round-up...

Sharks and Crocs...

Tasmania's festival of voices, Central West Cycling Trail, and Barossa Valley experiences...

Dingos and Great White Sharks...

Blue-ring octopus, Snakes...

12 Apostles, Hanging Rock, the Macedon Ranges, Bendigo Trams, Phillip Island, Puffing Billy Railway, Healesville Sanctuary...

From the awesome beauty of the Great Barrier Reef. to the breath-taking spectacle of giant whale sharks cruising the Ningaloo Reef...

Bushfire: Ravaging Australia. Tasmania: Jack Jumper Ants...

Lord Howe Island and Balls Pyramid. Wild weather strikes...

Kimberley Cattle Round Up, Crocs and the indigeneous way of life in Kakadu...

Spirit of the Red Sands: Indigenous performance. Best of Ipswich, Toowoomba and Southern Downs. Moving to the next level on the Sunshine Coast...

The whale whisperer. Interacting with humpback whales in Hervey Bay. Southern Right whales and huge pods of dolphins off the Western Australian coastline...

From Lady Musgrave Island on the Great Barrier Reef to Banana Shire, Tambo Blackall and Barcaldine. One of Australia's greatest aviation mysteries, the American bomber that disappeared for 50 years. Catching giant Barramundi. Boxing promoter Fred Brophy's former hotel in the ghost town of Cracow. Rounding up the cattle on Gyranda Station. Tambo Teddies. Chicken racing. The Blackall Woolscour. The Tree of Knowledge...

Galloping horses with Cobb N Co style stagecoaches. Crusing the Long Reach of the Thompson River. The revamped Stockman's Hall of Fame. The QANTAS light show. Winton's Crack Up Sisters, and Waltzing Matilda Centre. Digging for fossils in Richmond. Glorious outback sunsets and hot tubs in Julia Creek. Feeding cattle and John Flynne memorial in Cloncurry. The abandoned Mary Kathleen Uranium mine...