Koala at the Australia Zoo
We had a very nice day at the zoo. The weather was pretty decent, and it only rained a couple of showers. Since we had our big new umbrella we didn’t get wet at all.
This morning I washed down the motorhome before we left. It had a month of grime on it from our travels, so it needed to be done. Then we drove to the Australia Zoo. This is a private zoo, started by Steve Irwin, “The Crocodile Hunter”, and it is very well done. It is very clean, the animals are almost all Australian or South East Asian native species, and we enjoyed it very much. They put on a show twice a day in the “crocoseum” which is a large ampitheatre that would seat around 5000 people. It was entertaining. They had a lot of free flying birds in the show. I don’t know how they have trained them to fly on command into the theatre, but they did. They fed a large crocodile, and it is amazing how fast such a big animal can move.
8.2 metre saltwater crocodile replica
There were lots of koalas and kangaroos of course, but also a lot of other animals like Tasmanian Devils, Dingos, Wombats, some of the most poisonous snakes in the world, and many different kinds of Australian birds. They’ve got alligators from America, and of course many Australian salt and freshwater crocodiles, including a replica of an 8.2 m long salt water crocodile. It is easy to say 8.2 m, but it is hard to fathom how big that really is. The crocodile is enormous when you see it in a life size replica.
After we left the zoo we drove to the south side of Brisbane where we checked in to the Nestle Inn park. We’ll be here for at least tomorrow as we spend some time in Brisbane.