Bundle your Flight, Resort and Automobile for Great Savings! Boxing Day each December sees Sydney’s foreshore crowded with spectators sending off the glossy, high-tech vessels on the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, which pits a number of the world’s finest sailors in opposition to the notoriously wild winds of Tasmania’s Bass Strait.\n\nFor those drawn to the ocean, reap the benefits of the country’s gorgeous coastline and climb aboard a yacht for a nautical adventure around the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, the Whitsunday Islands, the wild Northern Territory coast, or Tasmania’s Freycinet Peninsula.\n\nWhile a large proportion of Australians reside in cities on the east coast, the more sparse populations of the countryside and coastal regions are also identified for their safety and friendliness, with the roadside ‘honesty box’ still alive and nicely in rural Australia.\n\nAlthough Australia is renowned for its dangerous snakes, spiders and marine life, it’s good to do not forget that incidents of harm are low, and taking wise precautions and following your guide’s instructions will do much to reduce any unwanted encounters with the local wildlife.\n\nInsect repellents and measures to forestall mosquito bites are strongly advised for tropical regions of the Northern Territory, Western Australia and North Queensland, where there are periodic outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases corresponding to dengue fever.