Steve Irwin's - Australian Zoo

Alrighty...another proud moment in my life shot to hell! A few days ago I took the next logical step to becoming a real backpacker by lightening my load. I said enough of this crap and threw out three shirts and a pair of shorts. A very bold move I might add!! Thank you...thank you... Unfortunately my smugness was short lived as I found out that you had to actually wear real pants and real shoes to many of the bars in the City. What's that all about??? This is Australia...home of the flip flops. So begrudgenly (is that a word) I went to the mall and sought out a some deals. For my proud negotiation skills...I was able to score a great deal on a pair of shoes and two pairs of jeans. Sounds good so far...right??? Hell no...I don't have room for all that stuff in my backpack as I found out this morning packing up to hit Surfer's Paradise next. Nice move Einstein!!



But to rub things in a little and make me feel better about myself...the night out with Jackie and Davin was the first time I wore pants instead of shorts or anything but sandals on my feet since my flights to Australia. Did I mention it was about 30 degrees yesterday?

As stupid as I may appear to many of you, especially based on my comments above...I'm not as crazy as this guy. What's he thinking? The next few shots are of the Steve Irwin Australia Zoo in case you couldn't read the picture above.

This picture and many more of elephants I'll add to facebook is for my buddy Vernon as he's one of the elephant keepers at the Toronto Zoo. I'm not sure why I comment on him since I know he's way too busy or at least not that bored to read this blog, but hey...you can tell him about it when you're at the Toronto Zoo next time.




Ahh..let's hear it...isn't it cute?

OK...unless I have pictures of a Koala ripping someone to shreds or singing AC/DC tunes...this will be the last Koala picture I put on my blog. Whew...I'm glad thats over!





Lizards are becoming my new friends. Yeah...I have friends!!

These guys run everywhere and anywhere. It's always entertaining to see people scream as the lizards run across their feet or legs. I'm sure the zoo has no idea how many of these little suckers are running around and terrorizing people.



I must admit, it was pretty freaky to see all the pictures and videos of Steve Irwin at the Zoo. He's certainly been enshrined. I feel a little bit bad for saying this, but there are some pretty funny/sick jokes about Steve Irwin as told by many Aussies. I leave that to your imagination. The zoo actually isn't that big, but they have some pretty big plans as they outlined in one of the shows. I'm still glad I got to see it and would recommend it to those of you who come to Australia.

If you find yourself in Brisbane, I would also recommend heading up to Mt Coot-Tha (yeah...something like that) at night which gives you an awesome panoramic view of the lights of Brisbane. I was told it was a good spot for other things as well, but I wasn't sure what they meant by that.

Yeah...I'm running out of things to say...at least semi-intelligent things anyway. But I've pretty much done all the talking so far. Let's have some comments from those reading the blog. To those who have already commented on the blog...keep up the great work.

The picture to the left...still at the Zoo. I thought the statue was cool...nothing more than that. And hey, it gave me another try for the photography awards.

See you in Surfer's Paradise!!