We all agreed that we could not visit Australia without seeing Steve Irwin's Australian Zoo. We booked via the hostel and they arranged a courtesy bus to collect us from the end of our street. It was a long day 8am till 5pm.
So we got picked up and made the short drive over to the zoo. They have renamed the highway where the zoo sits on. I cannot remember what it was called before but know it is officially the 'Steve Irwin Way'.
The zoo was great. I loved it. We saw some tortoises that were well over a 100 years old. They were really cute. My favorite was the crocodiles. There was loads of them. They looked fierce. Justing lying there waiting to pounce and eat you. Scary. At 11am we all piled into the croc-a-see-em. Here we saw three gorgeous elephants, then there was a bird show.
After the crocs we had a wonder round at all the lizards and other reptiles. Then we walked up the Tiger Temple. Here we saw some beautiful tigers lazing around in the shade with their keepers. There was a glass wall pool for them to play in, but we never saw any of them cooling down in there. We did see a keeper though playing with one of the tigers. It was all friendly enough, but did look a little scary when the tiger started wrapping his mouth around the keepers limbs. But the keeper knew what he was doing and all was good.
We wandered around the zoo and saw loads and loads of things that we indigenous to Australia. There was loads of memorials to Steve, who we all know died. Lots of signs for his daughter Bindi. Who looks set to be a bigger star than Steve was. They are doing loads of work around the Zoo. Expanding it and developing new areas. It is set to be complete in a few years and would definitely be worth coming back to see. They are going to re-create the African planes.
After a thoroughly good day we hopped on the bus and jogged home.
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