Beautiful Australia video of still photos, set to a haunting didgeridoo music track. Images of Ayers Rock (Uluru), beaches along the Great Barrier Reef, dingo dogs, baby kangaroo (joey!), various bird species, and crocodiles are all edited together to provide a great sense of the natural beauty Down Under.

12/29/08 by visitEarth
Tags: Australia, tourism, down under, dingo, kangaroo, Ayers Rock, Uluru, travel, photography, Outback, Great Barrier Reef, video, crocodiles

 

Here's a really well-shot video while scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The two animals hogging up all the screen time are a large turtle and an octopus, which are two underwater creatures I'd watch all the time. The camerawork and colors are really crisp, bright and true, and capture some of the reef, corals and schooling fish nicely as well.

12/20/08 by visitEarth
Tags: Great Barrier Reef, Australia, scuba, diving, turtle, octopus, reef, scuba diving, underwater

 

Here's a short video describing the immense Great Barrier Reef in Australia, including fantastic aerial views of the reef and some of the islands, and beautifully-shot underwater clips of the corals, reefs and animal life while scuba diving. Of course, there's the required (and true) warning about the impact that global warming and climate change is having on the reef, notably the bleaching of the corals due to rising water temperature. I've become rather cynical as almost all nature/animal videos now have a requisite dire warning - but if you can get past that, this is a remarkably gorgeous video...

12/05/08 by visitEarth
Tags: Great Barrier Reef, Australia, reef, coral, global warming, climate change, scuba, diving

 

Here's a short but excellent video promoting tourism to Australia, focusing on the very diverse and rather unique wildlife throughout the country. Some of the clips are really interesting and unusual, very tempting indeed - the only strange thing was the scene showing the forcible moving of koalas because there were "too many" of them for tourists. I think that was perhaps taken out of context, as it really doesn't fit well within the rest of the video. Regardless, the land animals (kangaroos and dingos) and the ocean animals (such as the whales and manta rays) of the Great Barrier Reef are a true wonder...

11/24/08 by visitEarth
Tags: Australi, tourism, travel wildlife, animal, animal life, koala, kangaroo, whale, great barrier reef, manta rays

 

From National Geographic is this short video from Australia of a dingo closing in on a small kangaroo family including a joey (baby kangaroo). It's less than two minutes long, so I won't give away the ending...

07/22/08 by visitEarth
Tags: Australia, dingo, kangaroo, outback, Australian, dingo dog, joey, baby kangaroo