Today was Steve Irwin Day. To see what all the fuss was about we decided to bite the bullet and visit Australia Zoo as it was so close to Coloundra.Steve Irwin is a god-like figure around here and any stingray-related jokes would probably get you the death penalty. It seems that most of the money coming into Queensland is as a direct result of his work. Crikey!
We arrived 15 minutes after the zoo opened and the car parks were already rapidly filling up. We took our seats at the 'Crocoseum' and waited to see what would happen. An hour in the hot sun later we heard a tribute from John Howard (PM) and were treated to the first airing of Bindi Irwin's new single. We did get a snake and bird display and then a few songs from Olivia Newton-John (a good friend of the family) - and then Ms NJ gave a shameless plug for Terri Irwin's new book - 'My Steve'. That was enough for us - we left and went to find some animals.
We found some koalas, kangarooes, wallabies, wombats, snakes and aboriginees etc. Sally patted a koala and I fed a kangaroo.We went back to Caloundra and each had a doughnut - which was nice.
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