Sunday, November 05, 2006

28th October - Crikey! There's a croc

That's right we paid our tribute to the late and very very great Steve Irwin by visiting his zoo, Australia Zoo. His legacy still lives on there and all the staff seem to have inherited some of his spirit and love for all things animally. The zoo was great, we got to see a tonne of animals and obviously got to see the famous croc show.

The elephants were good, as it was 34 degrees they were being hosed down and were taking a mud bath, but the mud was Australian red mud and the elephants kind of had a reddish/pinkish tinge to them so I wasn't sure if I was still drunk or not. Anyway they were led off for some feeding and they all held trunk to tail which made Sarah go Ahhhhh.

We got to pet some Kangaroos and some more Koalas of which Sarah took at least 50 shots of as she kept finding even cuter babies. The tigers were pretty cool too, but they didn't do much as it was darn hot, don't blame them really.

The snake enclosure brought along a typical Aussie family. The dad and son were looking at a Taipan snake, one of the most deadliest snakes in the world that could kill 100 men with the amount of venom it injects. Anyway the dad says to his son 'you see that Taipan snake son?' 'Yeah dad' 'That's what we ran over the other day!'. Quality.

Then we went to the Crocoseum to see the three shows. The Crocoseum had all of the tributes to Steve still up there, hundreds and hundreds of his trademark khaki shirts all signed. It was a fitting tribute. The shows were awesome, the first was snakes with a bit of slapstick thrown in for good measure. They put a 4m Anaconda into the water and the way it swam was incredible, very stealthy and deadly, but graceful at the same time.

The bird show was pretty cool with loads of parrots and they finished off with a massive Eagle. Finally was the croc show with Mossman the 4m crocodile. We got some great photos of him eating meat and things from the nutso rangers hands and stuff, really cool. Hopefully the internet will let me put it on here.

Among other things we got to see Tasmanian devils, wombats, dingos, camels and the common Australian wandering around.

After we headed down on past Brisbane to go to the Gold Coast, passing on the way the town of Burpingary, not as good as a Town called Gary but probably more apt. (If GAry doesn't leave a comment now then he's a loser, also this is a small test to see if anyone is still reading this!).
We stopped on the way at Pimpama to book myself in for WRX challenge morning for monday, driving a 350 bhp rally subaru Impreza around a field alot of times. Should be awesome.

Then we got to the greatest campsite ever, we could see it from the motorway and Sarah's little face lit up as she saw a giant jumping pillow. This is like a bouncy castle/trampoline but shaped like a giant pillow. Of course we ran down to have a go after checking in. Quality.

Tomorrow and the day after see us at more theme parks. Tonnes of photos will be taken, 162 were taken alone today. God help the friends and family that we make sit through our entire collection, we have nearly 2500. At least Liz made it up to Fiji and was there for NZ, lucky girl.

Right off to the pub for the first time in 4 days.

Laters

Pricey

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