Wednesday 2nd June 2004 - Day 263/366 - Brisbane, Queensland.

Crikey life's strange

Mx and I are off on a trip to the Australia Zoo home of the Crocodile Hunter, or Steve 'Crikey' Irwin as we like to call him. It meant an early start to catch the crocodile train ($34) which includes return train ride to Beerwah, bus transfer to zoo and entry.

We had time for brekky at the station and by some complete freak I recognised 2 people at the till. It's Chris and Charl (the NICE welsh people) from my Paihia dive course. They're in Brisbane for 1 day and are heading to the Zoo too. What's the chances of that.

The zoo it pretty good. It's very new and well laid out. There is plenty of space for the animals, but prehaps not enough animals. Highlights would be the elephant feeding, the baby Tiger cubs (which Mx hugged) the 5000 seat crocoseum with the bird show, snake show and crocodile show. Steve 'Crikey' Irwin didn't do the show, but apparently he was about.

It was really good to see Chris and Charl again. We weren't sure if we'd get a chance to meet up as they weren't originally going through Brisbane. Whats the chances of that?

Had a nice last supper with Mx and went over all the things we've done over the last nine months. She flies to Perth tomorrow, then Tokyo, then home by next Friday.

Went and watched Evelyn.