# Australia - the most BEAUTIFUL country in the world? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364 "2003-04-13T01:02:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scantilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Scantilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scantilly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/1 "2003-04-13T01:02:30Z")
I have been living in the USA for 3 years and yesterday returned HOME (Australia) for a visit. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of this country. Great expense of clear blue sky and sunshine sparkling onto endless ocean. Smiles on all the faces of gorgeous, tanned and friendly people. Kookaurras laughing, flowers everywhere, children playing. It is almost as if the world is super-real. The colors are so intense. The light so bright. It feels like everyone is in love and laughing. My soul is drunk on the beauty of this place. Am I just glad to be home or is this really the most incredible country in the world? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/2 "2003-04-13T01:04:59Z")
Remember–every third living thing in Australia is poisonous. Have a nice day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/3 "2003-04-13T01:05:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*Remember–every third living thing in Australia is poisonous. \*\* Does that include Yahoo Serious? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/4 "2003-04-13T01:08:07Z")
I am biased, but IMO Rural Britain is the most beautiful country in the world. A close second is New Zealand (if LotR is anything to go by), Third - Isle of Man. I don’t travel much. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/5 "2003-04-13T01:08:57Z")
[hijack] I’m not knowledgeable enough to comment on the beauty of Australia, but I know this: The Australian guy in my Processes of Learning II class is really freaking hot! Sorry, but it had to be said. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/6 "2003-04-13T01:14:03Z")
I feel the same way about where I live, especially the city itself. I remember returning from Spain, and coming into Montreal it was a gorgeous, beautiful clear day. We flew right over Anticosti Island, Quebec City, and finally over Montreal, and I even got a little choked up to see the features I recognize - the mountain, the U de M, the Oratory - as we flew low over the city. No place like home. ---
**Author:** ![Scantilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Scantilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scantilly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/7 "2003-04-13T01:14:31Z")
Actually **Cosmopolitan** I have to agree. It seems that not only is this country beautiful but the guys are gorgeous too. Am I wearing rose colored glasses? I even love the spiders and snakes, it adds a certain edge. Did I mention that the sun is still shining and i’m not wearing anything even resembling a coat? ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/8 "2003-04-13T01:18:58Z")
I lived in Melbourne for much of 1990. I briefly visited Sydney and Adelaide. Yet as for beautiful - my excursion to Wilson’s Promontory in southern Victoria was awesome. Kilometers and Kilometers (okay - miles and miles) of untouched, unspoilt land and a path through forests and coastal land to reach the southernmost point of mainland Australia (with Tasmania somewhere off in the distance of warm, greenish blue seas). ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/9 "2003-04-13T01:19:44Z")
I can’t speak about the guys (shudder) but the australian **girl** in my dream about being in an american school was…just…so…(sigh) The worst moment of my entire life was **waking up** right after she beckoned me into the shower (wearing red bathing suit) ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/10 "2003-04-13T01:20:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Actually Cosmopolitan I have to agree. _You_ know Matt _too_? It really is a small world, after all… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Scantilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Scantilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scantilly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/11 "2003-04-13T01:24:56Z")
**Wilson’s Promontory** is stunning. I camped there for a week about 4 years ago. Almost like being inside a temple under the open sky. ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/12 "2003-04-13T01:26:50Z")
Every country I’ve visited (with the exception of Poland) I found beautiful, in different ways. I love parts of Australia, but parts of New Zealand, the UK, Europe and Asia are just as beautiful, in their own ways. (America was not included in the above list, because I haven’t personally been there and I’m talking fro personal experiences, but from photos I’ve seen of your National Parks, I’m very impressed!) Where one might have the most beautiful mountains, another may have the most breathtaking atolls, and another might have exquisite rainforests. Beauty is everywhere on this planet, if you look for it. Most places you don’t even have to look very hard 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/13 "2003-04-13T01:33:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scantilly \* > \*\* > Great expense of clear blue sky and sunshine sparkling onto endless ocean. Smiles on all the faces of gorgeous, tanned and friendly people. \*\* Australia - where white people go to get [skin cancer](http://www.sunsmart.com.au/s/facts/skin_cancer_and_australians.htm) . ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/14 "2003-04-13T02:07:50Z")
Know any Australian women who want to marry a Yank? I can fly a helicopter. Maybe I can get a job mustering cattle? 😃 Actually, I’m thinking of visiting Australia for the first time next October. I’ve always wanted to go there, and I think it’s about time. I just watched _Gallipoli_ again today. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/15 "2003-04-13T02:08:29Z")
Well I am from the US but I have been to Australia twice and I agree, it is freaking gorgeous. There is something to the “There’s no place like home” idea, but there is also the phenomenom of falling in love with a place you only ever visit on vacation. My wife and I idly talked at one time about emigrating to Australia. I am just afraid that if we moved there permanently the magic would be gone. Once you had to look for a job, rent an apartment, do your laundry, go shopping, it would all become humdrum and mundane. Does that make sense? ---
**Author:** ![Latch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@Latch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latch)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/16 "2003-04-13T02:16:52Z")
Yeah, there is a lot of skin cancer down here… but laying on the beach all the time, you’re asking for it. At least use sunscreen! When I go out to Bells or 13th or whatever (for the surfies), I get some strong stuff cause of my skin. I have mates who put on SPF 2 or 3 or something, and roast. I can see them ending up w/ cancer soon. They ask for it though… they know the dangers, they just ignore them. Oh, this place has my vote for being the most beautiful as well (although I’ve only been here and The States). ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/17 "2003-04-13T05:20:24Z")
I lover her dearly, but then I’m biased. The “no place like home” thing is true, and I can see beauty in other countries I’ve been to. I can see beauty in the tourist places mentioned, as anybody can, yet as a native, I can also see beauty in fire and flood, in bleached cattle bones, in the red dust, the heat haze, in the poisonous things… …and in just sitting under a gum tree under the Southern Cross, beer in hand, listening to the “Great Quiet”. In another thread, you may ask me about the suburban Sydney ratrace. 🙂 > [@](#): > > I love a sunburnt country, > A land of sweeping plains, > Of ragged mountain ranges, > Of droughts and flooding rains. > I love her far horizons, > I love her jewel-sea, > Her beauty and her terror - > The wide brown land for me! From [_My Country_ - Dorothea Mackellar]([http://home.iprimus.com.au/michellejbailey/Mackellar.htm](http://home.iprimus.com.au/michellejbailey/Mackellar.htm)) ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/18 "2003-04-13T05:22:51Z")
Well, perhaps I’m biased because I live here, but I think Australia _is_ the most beautiful country in the world. I always tell my friends in other countries that I live in the best place on earth. I’ve been to Japan, New Zealand, Canada, many parts of the USA, most of Europe and parts of South-East Asia, and, while I’ve seen many places that were stunning in their own right, I’ve never seen anywhere to compare with Australia overall. It’s not just the scenery. The people, the culture… I feel that, in some ways, we have it all. As for skin cancer, well, I haven’t had any removed _yet_. But hey, if Australia were perfect then it would be heaven and that would mean I’d have to be an angel. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/19 "2003-04-13T05:37:15Z")
I just came into MPSIMS to start a thread about what a glorious day it is here in southern Aus. It’s a gorgeously rainy Sunday arvo in rainy old Melbourne, the kids have nicked-off and I have the house and the CD player to myself. The sky is black and the gutters are (at last) overflowing and I thank the powers that be that I am an Aussie. You can stick your wonderful scenery and your ‘wide open spaces’ right up your bums today. Australia is grouse because IT IS BLOODYWELL POURING WITH RAIN. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364/20 "2003-04-13T05:47:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scantilly \* > \*\* > It seems that not only is this country beautiful but the guys are gorgeous too. > \*\* Is here where I mention that I’m Australian? 😃 And so’s my girlfriend :). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-the-most-beautiful-country-in-the-world/168364.md?page=2)