The Sunshine Coast and Australia Zoo

We headed off south down to the sunshine coast which is the area of coast just north of Brisbane. We had been warned that it was very commercialised and only there to extract as much money from the tourists as possible but it was still a bit of a culture shock. The beaches are superb and there are no stingers so swimming is possible but the high rise hotels and shockingly expensive campsites were a bit of a surprise. You would think with all that competition that prices would be low. The only reason we didn’t carry on straight to Brisbane was that we wanted to go to Australia Zoo and it was only a short journey from the campsite where we decided to stay.

Australia Zoo was amazing. Even though it was a bit pricey to get in all the shows were included in the price. The first show was the giant Aldabran tortoises then it was into the crocoseum for the snake, bird and finally croc show. We wondered how they would carry on after Steve’s death but they talk about him in nearly every other sentence and everything is done as it was before. We then wandered around looking at the animals until it was time for feeding the otters who were really cute. Then it was wandering round until it was elephant feeding time and I got feed an elephant and they eat really quickly. Then it was on to the tiger show. Why any one would want to play with two full grown tigers is beyond me especially when it came to taking their toys away from them. If a tiger wants to keep it’s toys I say let it. It was a wonderful day and the zoo is so well run and the animals are wonderfully looked after which is not surprising I suppose.