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Matt Wilkinson - Hooroo a roo
The Challenge - Walk up to a kangaroo and say "Hooroo"
Anyone else confused? I know I was. Hell I've been in Australia for over 6 months and never once heard someone say hooroo. Anyway being a nice guy I consulted the oracle of Urban Dictionary to find that it is some sort of Australian way of saying farewell.
Well I had several opportunities with Kangaroos in the wild, aswell as a close encounter with a group of Roo's at the free botanical gardens at Rockhampton. But as luck would have it, my terrible memory caused me to forget doing it all these times, saving me the chance to do it at none other than the great Steve Irwin's zoo, god rest his soul... which I did remember.
So anyway there I was strutting around in Roo Heaven, looking around for some unfortunate hopping rodent to be annoyed at me trying to shake its hand and say goodbye. This ended in failure which caused me to ram the camera into his face. Here is said video of Kangaroo
The Kangaroo that I chose was having none of it. But, although he was pissed of and about to prop his ass up on his tail and give me a double kick blast of doom, he never did, and instead kept munching on the grass and sniffing my camera.
Just to point out, the Steve Irwin zoo also had other challenges associated... namely dressing up as either a stingray or big Steve himself (god rest his soul). Unfortunately, although I had a sort of Steve costume (god rest his soul) left over from Halloween, I felt extreamly bad dressing up as him in his own backyard. And the stingray also felt a bit riskay... what with it being the p**** of the sea accidentally killing the scourge of crocodiles. Sorry Steve love you too much. My friend Adi Murphy also failed this challenge, having been asked to wear Crocodile Attire.
So I call that a challenge complete ey Matt?
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