On August 10th this summer, me and my father got on a plane to Australia. It took 15hr30m from Vancouver to Sydney and when we arrived it was the morning of the 12th. It didn’t take long for me to adjust to the time zone. It was my second time going to Australia but we went to Brisbane last time in 2019 but we were not going there this time. We went to Australia to go birdwatching and I saw 366 species of birds in the three weeks we were there for. We did a lot of domestic flights and covered a lot of ground. From Sydney we drove down to Melbourne, flew to Perth, flew to Darwin, flew to Alice Springs, then flew back to Sydney. The weather was very different every place we went. Since the seasons are switched there, it was there winter. The coldest days were in the south when it got to 0 degrees and the hottest days were in the north when it got to 38C degrees. We only went to go birding but we did see lots of animals like kangaroos, bats, wombats, lizards, crocodiles and a dingo and I even touched an echidna. The day we were supposed to fly back to Vancouver, our flight somehow got cancelled and we spent 5 hours at the airport trying to figure it out. Sadely we missed our flight so we had to stay an extra day but we did get on the plane the following day. By the time I got back to our house, it was the afternoon of September 4th and I was so tired because of the time difference and less than 24 hours later I went to school. Overall, it was a fun holiday!