Steve Irwin Zoo via Noosa HeadsOct 13, 2007
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Steve Irwin Way
Outside The Zoo
Me and Skippy
Well the zoo day turned out to be a bit of a nightmare to begin with as the hostel we were staying at did not send one of its mini buses out on time to the bus transit centre so we could catch the bus to the Zoo. As there were too many people for the minibus they had to do a second run so when team J got on the second run, we arrived near the transit centre just in time to watch the coach drive off on the other side of the road. We had to definately go as we had already paid for our tickets, and there would be no opportunity to go again. To cut a long story short, after about an hour of stressing and complaining to the hostel (their attitude was SO bad), we decided to see if the 6 of us left behind could rent a mini bus. Both rental places only had 5 seaters, so we thought we would just squeeze 6 in the car and hope for the best. Jon didn't want to risk it, so after much group discussion Jon opted to stay behind as he said he wasn't that bothered and so we had to shoot off to make the most of an already half wasted day. The annoying thing being that Jon couldn't be there and it cost us extra unneccesary money.
Arriving at the zoo, we went to see the crocodiles, camels, emus, tigers, kanagroos, and most of all, my favourite, the Koalas. The day was pretty good - a standard zoo really, with a memorial place for Steve Irwin. Apparently he is buried on park grounds somewhere, but they haven't disclosed it to anyone.
The best part of the day is when I got a picture taken with Larry the Koala which I very nearly didn't. The opening of the photo studio opened at 3 so I got there just before to find that they had already closed the queue claiming there were already too many people and that the koalas get cranky after half an hour. I was so disappointed so Jason batted his eyelids with one of the young girls that worked there and asked her to see 'what she could do'. It worked because 30 minutes later she radioed over to staff and they brought me my own koala up to hold a ha ha!
Can't think of much more to say, Jon usually does all this...I just a few of the pictures up but don't have the patience to put any more on!
