Good news - Road Trip! Bad news - it's the last week of our adventure.
Get up early and get going, the start of most of our blog entries. This time, get up early, go to the airport, get our rental car, and head out on our road trip. Our plan of attack for the final days of our trip was to rent a car in Brisbane and drive (slowly) from Brisbane to Sydney. The first stop on our road trip was the Australia Zoo, former home of Steve Irwin, just an hour north of Brisbane. We're not big zoo people but the Australia Zoo was written up in our Lonely Planet - Australia book so we thought we should visit it while in the area. The detour was definitely worth it. The Australia Zoo is a great zoo and different from any other we have been to. 
Since this was Steve Irwin's (the Crocodile Hunter) zoo you can easily guess what the star animal is at the zoo. There are no fewer than a dozen pens for crocodiles in the zoo plus the Crocoseum. The Crocoseum is a large arena where crocodiles and other animals are brought in and shown off. We got to catch a show in the Crocoseum and see a croc go to town on some chicken breasts. The crocodiles are huge, 12, 15, even 20 feet long and most were actually caught by Steve Irwin. The rest of the zoo is made up mostly of indigenous Australian animals: kangaroos, koalas, poisonous snakes, Tasmanian devils, dingos, etc. 
Not only were the animal exhibits cool but we got to touch some of the animals. The kangaroo exhibit is wide open, you can feed and touch the kangaroos. In another exhibit there are koalas just chilling out and they will even let you hold them. Definitely one of the coolest zoos we've been to.
Since this was Steve Irwin's (the Crocodile Hunter) zoo you can easily guess what the star animal is at the zoo. There are no fewer than a dozen pens for crocodiles in the zoo plus the Crocoseum. The Crocoseum is a large arena where crocodiles and other animals are brought in and shown off. We got to catch a show in the Crocoseum and see a croc go to town on some chicken breasts. The crocodiles are huge, 12, 15, even 20 feet long and most were actually caught by Steve Irwin. The rest of the zoo is made up mostly of indigenous Australian animals: kangaroos, koalas, poisonous snakes, Tasmanian devils, dingos, etc. 
Not only were the animal exhibits cool but we got to touch some of the animals. The kangaroo exhibit is wide open, you can feed and touch the kangaroos. In another exhibit there are koalas just chilling out and they will even let you hold them. Definitely one of the coolest zoos we've been to.After the zoo we meandered southward past Brisbane to Lamington National Park. To add to our adventure and cut down on costs we bought a little beach tent in Melbourne and we were going to camp with it on our road trip. We drove to Lamington National Park to both get some cheap lodging and see the Australian outdoors. Like most of our camping experiences we got to our campsite well past dusk and setup camp under the stars. After we setup camp and had a celebratory bottle of wine we took a short night walk. We stumbled upon a field filled with wallabies (a smaller relative of the kangaroo) that scrambled away when we got close. We turned around when we realized we really weren't going to see anything and the field was filled with wallaby poo.
The next morning we got up with the sun, 5am (Queensland, the state that we were in, doesn't do day light savings). Getting up at the crack of dawn has its privileges though as we took a walk through the rainforest seeing dozens of wallabies and stumbling on an awesome view. After the bushwalk (aka hike) we got back in our Toyota Corolla Seca and hit the road.
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