Australia Zoo Part V: The Final Frontier

So here it it. The final installment!! All the photos that haven't fit in to the previous themes. Including ones of the kids (and JBV!)! They had a ball. Even though they drove me crazy! Jaxon had a map, and wanted to see particular animals at particular times- even if they were always on opposite sides of the zoo! I don't know how many times I had to explain to him "we'll get to them... we are going to follow this track and see all the animals along the way, and we will eventually come to the dingos...". But 2 minutes later... "Ok, I wanna go see the dingos now.."! Aaargh! I can see why my parents used to get so frustrated with me at places like this- because I was exactly the same- just like every other kid! :)

We've got the passes that give us unlimited entry until Nov 30, so JBV took the kids to Bindi's Birthday last weekend as well (while I was at work!!) so we've already got our moneys worth! But there's a few more 'special' events coming up that we'd normally stay away from, but because the tickets are free, we plan on going- Like "Steve Irwin Day" and then of course the new Safari section opening in September! We'll make SURE we get our moneys worth!! ;)

Australia Zoo Part I
Australia Zoo Part II: Where Crocs Rule (and lizards too!)
Australia Zoo Part III: Birds of a Feather
Australia Zoo part IV: Furry Friendlies

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Australia Zoo Part II- Where Crocs Rule!! (and lizards too!!)

Continued from Australia Zoo Part I
So we pulled up in the car park, to the zoo, and the kids eyes were fantastic to see- so excited- what a surprise! This is why us parents keep putting ourselves through stressful days at zoos and theme parks etc- for the kids (even if at the end of the day we swear we will never go again!!). But then JBV burst the bubble- he told them that there was a park behind the zoo we were going to, to feed the ducks! Bastard! Master J new dad was of i, but Miss K was furious! She refused to get out of the car! I finally made her understand that dad was full of crap, and we were off. I know that I've posted a few photos earlier, but to make it easier (for me), I thought I'd group the next few blogs into types of animals, so a couple of these may be repeated from the first blog! I thought I may as well start with the crocs! We went to the wildlife show and saw a few animals, but we were there for the crocs of course! The trainer tried for a long time to get him to jump out for the 'chook' for quite some time before he gave up- but came back to it at the end of the show and finally got some results. But it was a pretty poor effort on the crocs behalf- he barely left the water!! I promised the kids that one day we would go to Darwin and we'd go on the Adelaide River Queen and REALLY see some crocs jump! But the kids still enjoyed it! So Here are our croc photos! And I thought I could get away with throwing some lizards into the mix as well- they are reptiles after all!! :)
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Croc Food! Mmmmm!

 Shingleback Lizards

 Master J spotted this water dragon sunning himself on some stairs- scared the C.R.A.P. out of him!

Rhinoceros Iguana

Happy Anniversary Dear!

Last Friday we spent the morning picking strawberries (Strawberry Fields Forever). But our excitement didn't stop there! Almost home, I spotted something in the River that you don't usually see... An older couple were celebrating their wedding anniversary with a lovely, romantic day out on the boat. At the end of their day, they reversed the Landcruiser in to bring up the boat- and hubby forgot to put on the handbrake. In it all went! Poor people! But they were handling it pretty well! I could only think what it would have been like if it were us! I would be crying, John would be running around like an idiot trying all sorts of stupid things like trying to push it out (he even said "why don't they try pushing it out...??"). The trailer on the back had jack-knifed, and the lady involved was standing on the submerged trailer right next to the car. the back was filled with boxes of paper work, and those that weren't floating around inside the cabin, were floating off down stream! We were one of the first on the scene, but it didn't take long for the place to be full of spectators! And there was even more rubber necking going on- the traffic was horrendous even for a long time after they car was out!). The tow trucks had already been called, and it didn't take them long to show. First one to show up, who subsequently got the job, was local Tewantin Noosa Towing, and once he waded in and hooked it up- it was a simple job to pull it out! What an end to their Anniversary Celebrations...!
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 Even the ducks came for a squiz!!

Can't even tell it's spent the last hour 3/4s submerged in the Noosa river! From the outside anyway...!!