Leaving Melbourne on August 22, 1978, and returning September 5, 1978, our six plane safari covered the eastern half of Australia from Melbourne in the southern Province of Victoria, west across the Province of South Australia to Ayers Rock in the Province of Northern Australia, northeast to the Gulf of Carpenteria in the Province of Queenslland, and east to Cairns on the Pacific Coast. Then south down the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea. Re-entering the mainland at Mackay we flew southeast across the Province of New South Wales back to Melbourne, a distance of almost four thousand miles,