Twenty million years ago the sea bed erupted to create the great limestone cliffs of Ningaloo. In the rocks, Ray encounters the fossils of giant prehistoric sharks, before swimming with their modern descendants, the whale sharks, out on Ningaloo reef.
On the waterways of Kakadu, Ray meets the fearsome salt-water crocodile and stays with an aboriginal family who share with him the secrets of farming with fire and creating meals from the bush.
Ray visits a landscape which was old before the dinosaurs walked the earth. He flies over fantastic rocks and hidden waterfalls, through towering gorges to see a prehistoric sight.
Kangaroo Island is the wild jewel in Australia's crown. In the bush, Ray meets an echidna - the only mammal with a real beak - but it also lays eggs. Ray discovers that the creature is an ancient bridge between reptiles and mammals.
Ray Mears explores another magical landscape and encounters the world's largest oyster.
Ray explores the Flinders mountains and encounters some of the unusual wildlife that lives there, including three species of kangaroo and Australia's largest bird of prey.
Ray Mears travels to the Walpole Forest, a primeval landscape of giant trees in south west Australia to meet the quokka - one of the world's oldest marsupials.
