To break up the four hour drive back to Brisbane, we stopped at the Australia Zoo. While I don’t particularly like zoos, this zoo was established by Steve Irwin, the famed Australian conservation advocate who was killed by a string ray just off the Daintree Rainforest coast.
Interesting fact: Steve Irwin was celebrated by Google on February 22, 2019 which would have been Steve’s 57 birthay.
The major highway that runs along the east coast of Australia is the Bruce Highway. The highway around Brisbane was 2 to 3 lanes wide in each direction but as you get further from Brisbane, it becomes a single lane in each direction whith some wide-outs for passing purposes. What surprised me was that the highway was still single lane as it was 30 years ago.
The Austrailia Zoo is home to mainly Austrailian animals but there are some animals from Africa. My interest was seeing Austrailian animals expecially ones I have not been able to see in the wild. The main focus for the zoo is crocodiles but they do have many other animals as the pictures below show.
Michael made plans to get together with an acquaintance in Brisbane who had purchased Michael’s books. We had a wonderful evening with Brett and his wife Judy who prepared a wonderful meal for us and another couple who is also interested in military history. Brett and Judy live in a home built in 1912 known as a Queenslander which is considered a historic building.
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