Today was ace.

We woke super early for a 7.20 departure to Beerwah, which is the other side of Brisbane, to visit Australia Zoo. In case you don't know already this is Steve Irwin's zoo - the one featured in 'The Crocodile Hunter.'

The drive up there was excellent. The views were gorgeous, our tour driver stopped en-route at the Glass Mountains - stunning.

The zoo was seriously impressive. It rained all day. As soon as we hopped off the minibus we got caught in an all day storm. So we ended up running around in Aussie Zoo Ponchos all day. I'd dressed for the sun, so I ended up bare foot, walking in streams of water whilst avoiding kangaroo poop and small lizards.

It was amazing - we held a baby alligator and I got to cuddle a koala.

We took a tour around the park - we saw everything, from otters to dingos to echidnas and tigers. We fed Asian elephants, kangaroos and wallabies. Apparently if you don't feed the elephants quick enough they get mad. are the cutest animals ever. It turned out that practically everything in the park would kill you. There was a HUGE snake - apparently when it gets hungry it follows children (perfect 40kg meal size) around the walls of its glass room. Lovely.

We also paid a visit to Agro - the moody crocodile from the TV show. They had an immense show on where we saw the crocodiles, enormous birds and a man who decided to go swimming with a venomous snake.

Tonight was cool. - We ended up in an Irish pub all night. They had a bloke singing with his guitar. It was really funny, it turned out that pretty much everyone was Irish, drunk and singing along. Oh how I missed Guiness and Magner's. Mmmmm. Ben wouldn't dance though. (Meany.)

Ani's Travel Tip Part 2 Section 2 Paragraph 6: Australia rainy too

Ani's Travel Tip Part 2 Section 2 Paragraph 7: Never give up on Australia Zoo - where there's a will, there is a way.