"Australia Zoo" Ozzy2006’s photos around Grafton, Australia

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Grafton, Australia by TravelPod blogger Ozzy2006 titled "Australia Zoo" Ozzy2006’s travel blog entry: "We started the day with a swim in a freezing cold pool, which woke us up really well. We then set off further south on our quest for Sydney reachage. We stopped at Australia Zoo, just north of Brisbane, home of the famous Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin. We couldn't not stop here really, even though we wanted to get to Sydney. We had to stop here, and we were so glad we did! We started off looking at Cassowaries (man eating emus, well they don't eat men, mainly lizards etc), followed by koalas, dingoes, kangaroos, wombats, snakes and camels. We then went to a crocodile display, where the zoo keepers fed a croc - that was amazing to watch. Apparently they are pretty much harmless out of water because they are so slow, but in the water you really need to watch out! No more swimming in scamandon, granny, just in case! We both don't normally like zoos and wildlife parks etc because the animals look so unhappy cramped up inside their cages, but at Australia Zoo, Steve Irwin has really done well to give the animals as big enclosures as they could possibly need. The crocodile had a 100m x 50m enclosure, whereas the one on Philip Island was in an indoor cage 5x2m. Bit of a difference. The bird enclosure was about 20m high, 200m long and 50m wide and had a small rainforest inside it, which the public could walk through, by going ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 1m 23s Date Found: Fri, Mar 04 2011 5:52 AM Category: Travel Date Produced: Thu, Mar 03 2011 9:28 AM View Count: 0