Kangaroo on the beach, Cape Hillsborough National Park, Australia
As the sun rises over a wide beach facing the
Coral Sea, a kangaroo arrives for a breakfast of mangrove pods and seaweed. It's not an uncommon sight: There are sometimes more kangaroos than human visitors here on this remote peninsula in
Queensland, Australia. Trails just inland from the sand curve through a large forest of mangrove and eucalyptus trees, where
sugar gliders hang out during the day and sail down from the treetops at night. Volcanic activity shaped the landscape, and the park's rocky headlands and jagged cliffs are said to be part of the youngest volcanic area in Australia—'only' roughly 30 million years old.