CRIKEY! We went to Australia Zoo!

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It had to be done really, we couldn't come to Australia without visiting the home of that loveable legend Steve Irwin. We weren't disapointed either - it was an excellently run Zoo, with lots of cool animals.
We saw...
kangaroos, wombats, dingoes, snakes, spiny echidnas, cassowarys, emus, lizards, parrots, koalas, camels, otters, elephants, tigers, aligators and of course crocodiles.

We were really impressed by their show. They do a snakes alive / birds alive/ crocs alive show in the middle of the day in their Crocoseum. The snake segment was good and told you about how to avoid being bitten and also showed off some rather large Pythons. The birds were pretty and the croc was impressive. We really liked the way the show was centred on respecting the crocodile as an apex predator and learning how to be safe around crocodile waters. The show was funny and still included a short documentary by Steve.

As yet there's no memorial to Steve, but there is long section of gate where people have put up khaki shirt's with messages on. It's very touching and I'm sure there'll be something more permanent in the future.
We had a great day and again in the later part of the afternoon we thought we'd make up some more km's and drive on up the coast to Hervey Bay. Lots of people come to Hervey Bay to get to Fraser Island, but we'd decided we haven't really got time to visit the island and just went to Hervey Bay because it was in the right direction and we thought we might get to use the internet there.
We found one of the campsites in our handy book and checked in. We were greeted by a very drunk bloke who invited us to come and join him and some English girls in the camp kitchen. We had quite a strange night as he was very very drunk and the campsite was more of a trailer park than a caravan site for tourists. There were some odd people around! But it's okay because we've since noticed in our campsite book that it tells you if they're tourist or tourist & resident parks, so we can avoid the ones that have residents in the future.

Today we drove to a little costal town called Agnes Water where we'll stay until Boxing Day morning. We're planning on having a picnic on the beach and have just bought a fresh fish to barbeque up for our Christmas dinner.

Merry Christmas everyone!