TV Guide Sky Nature Friday

Lizzie Daly takes an in-depth look at the unique and diverse marine life that lives in and around Australia, beginning in the shores of the Northern Territory and the abundant waters of the Great Barrier Reef, facing flooded roads, hungry saltwater crocs ad killer jellyfish

The arid, rocky terrain in Goegap Nature Reserve burns in the hot African sun. But not everything in the parched landscape is wilted and bleak, on the edge of a rocky outcrop, an enormous tree boasts with large, leathery, heart-shape leaves. Its pale, gnarled, crinkled roots feeling their way across the massive boulders it's perched on, some splitting the rocks in order to find water. This is a Namaqua Rock fig, a tree of myth and fantasy