Having trouble finding a hotel in Brisbane for 3 nights and unusually, www.wotif.com aren’t of much help today. Eventually manage to find something in one of the Northern suburbs so relax and spend the day at Steve Irwin’s (RIP) Australia Zoo (www.crocodilehunter.com). A great selection of indigenous animals are housed here (most having been nursed back to health via their in-house animal hospital) and are joined by some elephants and tigers. All of the animals have huge amounts of space, most have been hand-reared and still have constant interaction with their keepers. Wandering around here, you get a feeling that Steve Irwin really cared about these animals (although maybe not quite so much as the giant, humping tortoises cared about each other that afternoon) and we all feel quite sad that Mr Crikey is no longer alive.
Wotif have definitely used poetic license to describe Redcliffe as a northern suburb of Brisbane. We’re actually 35km outside of Brisbane and travelling to Tom (Louie’s brother) and Emma’s for dinner in the rain and the dark takes quite some time. Tom and Emma are renting a gorgeous house in Wilston and we have a fab bbq on the deck at the back. Lovely to be in someone’s house for dinner again.
Redcliffe was the first white settlement in Queensland and has much in common with Eastbourne. Nice beach, full of old people waiting for God. Must get to internet café and find a hotel in Brisbane.
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