Steven Sklifas - Writer Photographer

Wilsons Promontory National Park. Home to abundant native wildlife, the Park size stretches to over 50,000 hectares (125,000-acres) and has a maze of walkway and hiking trails that provide a magical journey through a pristine and rugged wilderness including white sandy beaches, secludes coves, dramatic rock formations and verdant native forests.

Californian Redwoods Forest is in the Aire River valley, part of the Great Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia. Forests commission of Victoria planted this forest of Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) in 1936 as part of a softwood experimental program. The towering trees are in an area that receives a large amount of winter rain and foggy summer days. These conditions are allowing the tress to thrive and conceivably grow to become the tallest trees in the worlds.

Images in this gallery are of the township of Maldon, a historic gold rush town that was classified in 1966 by the Australian National Trust as Australia's First Notable Town.

Images in this gallery are of the historical railway station in the remarkably well-preserved gold mining town of Maldon, central Victoria, southern Australia.  The National Trust of Australia declared Maldon, Australia’s First Notable Town in 1965.

Images in this gallery are of the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden, a dazzling showcase of stunning exotic and native flora, only one hour’s drive from central Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Images in this gallery are of the William Ricketts Sanctuary, a serene mystical haven set in the verdant forest of the Dandenong Ranges on the outskirts of the city of Melbourne, Australia.

Images of Hopetoun falls, a picturesque waterfall in the Great Otway National Park, Victoria. Australia. Accessed by a track lined by spectacular tree ferns and lush native foliage, the waterfall tumbles down 30 metres into the cool crystal waters of the heritage-listed Aire River.