Saturday 23rd August

It has been 6 years since we took the kids to the great Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast, we decided to treat them to a day out and we headed up there for the day.

Well.......................what a change. There has been soooo much expansion and improvement to the zoo in that time, but all for the better. Lots to see, experience and learn, all with an underlying lesson in conservation. We had the opportunity to feed the elephants but the kids shied away at the last minute - even Tyler, and that's not like her.

The South East Asia end of the zoo is just stunning with a day paddock and a night paddock for the elephants and the tigers enclosure was the equivalent to a holiday resort in tiger terms. This is the newest part of the zoo and yet looks like it has been there for years. The trees in this area create a beautiful "old" tropical rainforest.

AND EVERTHING, EVERYWHERE IS SPOTLESSLY CLEAN.

I had a slight brush with fame - I almost, literally, walked right into Andrea Boccelli (now who's the blind one?). He had his first concert of his national tour in Brisbane last night, and he was here at the zoo today with his wife, 2 teenage sons, bodyguards and official photographer.