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Okay! I am very sorry that this is so belated. I’d written it in a document and forgot to post it. @sarah-h (and @bluejay), here we go! *takes a big breath and lets it out slowly*
We have seals and sea lions. (look them up, they’re actually pretty cute!) Living in Queensland, I have been to the Great Barrier Reef multiple times. Snorkeling there is incredible! We don’t get many bush fires in Queensland, but when I lived in Western Australia, we often had them near us. I remember one time, I think it may have been in Victoria, we drove through a little town and stopped at a sweet shop (it was my birthday). A couple of days later, we heard that a fire had ripped through that same town and destroyed everything. It made it a lot more personal to have actually been there (the news interviewed the lady from the sweet shop). Anyway, that was quite thought-provoking when it happened.
I have been very close to stepping on red-belly black snakes on multiple occasions and seen loads of snakes all over Australia, but on those rare occasions when we have lived in a house in one place in Australia for longer than a 2 years, we’ve mainly just had pythons.
I also detest spider. ABSOLUTELY CAN’T STAND THEM *boo hoo!* I have tried/do try to overcome it, but it’s very difficult. 🙁 Like @bluejay said, the bush is mostly gum trees, grass trees, sometimes ferns. If you look up ‘Australian bush’, you should see some pretty good pictures. We do have rain forests as well; one very beautiful one near where I live has loads of bower birds and green catbirds (they sound like a baby crying). One time I was eating a banana and a regent bower bird (they collect yellow things for their nests) came and sat on my hand and preceded to eat my banana! I’ve never seen a wild cockatiel, but we do have wild finches. We had a family of kookaburras nesting in hole in a tree in our yard. Being three girls, we named them. We got to watch them learning to fly! They were all fluffy and some of them fell out of the nest, but they all survived in the end.
In answer to your question (which parts of Aus have I traveled)… Well the answer is most of it! We started of in Perth, WA, and went up, to the right and to the middle of the top of Australia. Then we went down to the very middle (Ayers Rock, better known in Aus as Uluru and yes, that means I’ve been into the desert, but we call it the outback), turned around went back to the top and continued going east, basically going all along the coast to the top tip, and then going down along the east coast. We went all the way down to Tasmania, circumambulated it, then back up to Melbourne and all along the lower coast and back up to Perth. Sorry about that, but you did ask! 😛 If you look at a map of Australia it should make sense.
Yes, I live in Queensland. The two sides of Australia are pretty different.