The Australia Zoo!

“I went to the zoo
Just the other week
Saw the kangaroo
Had a talk with the chimpanzee
He said, "Hey brother, if you want a thing that's hip. Do the bearcat."

Ok sooo I know I’m behind on the 8 ball again – but there is thing called “school” that is really ruining my social life, and my ability to update my blog whenever I want… However here’s the big update…

So like every other tourist attraction, in my opinion, the Australia Zoo is overrated. It cost $50 to get in! But I guess the animals need to be fed and the workers need to be paid so fair enough, I had to go at least once right… I’m not going to lie it was pretty cool to feed the kangaroo’s and the elephant – Sabu…. Oh and I SAW A KOALA…. Finally – actually I saw tons and tons of koalas! I even got to pet one – I opted not to hold one because of the extra fee of $20 – but I got to pet one! I actually learnt a lot about them too – did you know that they sleep on average 20 hours a day – and that’s because they eat Eucalyptus leaves which are really difficult to digest… so therefore they sleep a lot. But when they are little joeys their moms have to feed them a form of bacteria (some sort of poo) so that their stomachs can handle the Eucalyptus leaves –hmmm I think I’ll pass thanks…

There were tons of animals there – otters, alligators, crocodiles, red panda’s, dingoes, kangaroos, elephants, tigers, Koala Bears – oh my…. And the list goes on and on… We watched one show that involved a crocodile, a snake, and tons of birds! The birds were flying crazy all over the place there were parrots, pink things, white belly eagles… all kinds of birds… and really bright green ones that were sooo fast and sooo loud, they would swoop right in front of your face, you could hear them fly by they were so fast, but they were kind of annoying… Then the second show we sat through was the tiger show – it was “fun time” for the tigers… Basically if they wanted to play they would, if they didn’t they would just sit there and watch, which is what the male did – kind of typical eh… haha.. They were playing with homemade toys, and the trainers would get them to jump in the water right in front of the glass, then they’d play against the glass in the water, it was fun… The four of us decided to sit up in the last row – well much to our surprise we had a little friend… there was a pretty big lizard that was hanging out behind the seats and every now and again he’d pop out and walk towards us…. We shooed him away because there was a little girl beside us who wasn’t a big fan… so then a short while later he came back just down the row from us.. haha there was this guy that pretty much freaked out, he grabbed all of his stuff and practically ran to the other side… scaredy cat! One lady had her purse open behind her, I thought for a second the lizard was going to jump in… Can you imagine! Oh my I would have thrown my head back and head my belly in laughter… ha ha ha… now that would have been funny – I don’t care who you are..

Well that pretty much sums up the zoo – overall it was a good day! But I don’t plan on going back anytime soon!