Current Mood: Happy

“Crikey! What a beaut this place is…”  took a trip out to Australia Zoo and have had an amazing time even though the late, great Steve Irwin is no longer around to oversee it.  The place is like a shrine to him with his images all over the place.  The memorabilia of Steve is everywhere and there is now a museum in his honour showing stuff like the largest croc he has come across, pictures of him as a kid and videos of him and his outstanding personality…

Got there a bit late as due to our luck, our bus broke down and we didn’t get there until 10:30.  Still the first thing we did was go to cuddle possibly the cutest species on the planet – the Koalas.  These things are great, they cling on you like your there mum and are reluctant to be taken away from you. 

Then was the croc show at the crocosseum and shit me these things are massive, we got to see Mossman doing his stuff, fresh out the wild this guy hadn’t lost any of his predatory abilities and swam under the water without making even a tiny ripple.  Not bad for a 14 foot croc!  He did a verticle leap to get his food from the Zoo staff member who had to hold it out and must of got a good 7 foot upwards, then with a massive snap his jaws locked around the lump of meet the guy had.  My shorts were brown, so I have no idea what colour the croc keepers were!

We went to the Animal Hospital that was Steves last great achievment, it handles 5000 cases every year and is expanding soon to be upto 6 times the size.  We saw a koala awaiting surgery on the bed under anisthetic, still looking awesomely cute and cuddly.  The majority of them in the hospital have either been hit by cars or mauled by dogs, sad what happens when somewhere becomes built up.

We did get to see the cutest Koala of the day here though, his name was Joseph and he was a baby Joey koala, his mum had died in a car accident so he was being cared for by the zoo.  Soooooooooooo Cute!!!!!!!

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Anyway, the day was full and filled with some really strange creatures and some really cute ones (Wombats!). But we didn’t get to see Harriet as she died in june aged 175 and a half! 

Off to Hervey Bay now and then our 4×4 adventure in Fraser Island!  Felling better in myself now as well.

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