Australia Zoo and Cairns

This might be a bit rushed so excuse the spelling and grammar. After arriving in Brisbane and getting a mammoth pizza takeaway from Eagle Boys we settled in at the hostel and watched telly, Australian TV has so many adverts it hurts your brain. The next morning we woke early at 7am and got a rental car out, we then drove our swish new wheels to Australia Zoo, the project set up by the late Steve Irwin and now run by his family. It was awesome, we got to hand feed elephants and kangaroos, and petted koalas kangaroos wallabies and even a baby croc. All in all it was a cracking day out, on the way back we climbed up to a veiwpoint, but it was a bit cloudy due to a cyclone that is working its way down the east coast. We dropped the car off that eve and arrived back at the hostel for all you can eat pizza and film night (dont worry mother i am back on healthy eating now, plenty of fruit n veg).




The next day we flew to Cairns, got some cracking views of the reef as we flew in, we arrived at our hostel at about 5pm, to be given a FREE MEAL voucher! and two BOGOF beer vouchers! Too good to be true we thought, considering we are paying $15 a night. It was, the beer tokens were fine, and for the first time in australia they served it in proper pint glasses. But the free 'meal' consisted of three mini vegatable samosas. Ah well.

The next day we headed into cairns and investigated Dive companies for scubaing the barrier reef, then in the eve had a pool competition, i got through to round 2, then potted the white after potting the black to win. Day after swam in the lagoon and played ball games on the park then watched rugby in the evening, all very relaxing. Got to go now internet time runnign out. hope you are all well. Blog soon

Rich