Australia Zoo
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 3 October 2006 | Views [280]
Friday 29 September 2006
‘Crikey’ Australia Zoo.
Well since the recent events concerning Australia’s local hero Steve Irwin we felt it appropriate to visit the famous ‘Australia Zoo’ home to the crocodile hunter, it was on the way to Brisbane and the Camper drop off so we went. Very, very busy although not cheap at a whopping $50 a head. It was very well laid out and felt like a Zoo should be, really big natural enclosures for the animals and really clean conditions. It’s nice to see, no concrete floors in sight, I am sure the animals love it, the kids certainly did shrill screams of excitement coming from every direction.
We started in the ‘Crocoseum’ and they let loose a range of tropical birds to fly amongst the crowd and you got nice n close. Some of the birds didn’t want to listen to their keepers and flew their own agenda. After this there was a song dedicated to Steve. The crowd was quiet and impressed. Outside the zoo was a memorial made for Steve, all covered with flowers.
The next show in the crocoseum was the exciting one: the biggest Crocodiles I’ve ever seen to eat half chickens from the keepers hands, a real spectacle.
We also decided that we should have a look at the Tasmanian Devils as I had been told they were extinct? They are alive and kicking and they don’t look like nasty little devils; they look quite cute.
Really, the zoo is great but we had to end our tour through the maze of cages and crowd because we had to continue our journey as we had an appointment at Travellers Auto Barn and it was getting late.
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