Brisbane!

Brisbane!

This is what happens when girls play with cars...Nic using the traditional toilet roll method for cleaning the car engine

Wombat!

Trying a stint at Croc hunting

Croc feeding Irwin style!

Brisbane. Brisbane, Brisbane! What should have been our usual city break including museums, all things civilized, and lots and lots of walking, turned into a race against time, and lots of walking. You guessed it, 4 days until New Zealand and we have still not sold the car. We have put posters up across the whole city, as we did in Cairns, but in my haste, I put an ad on the internet. Then the calls started pouring in! Ok, I did receive a few prank calls in response to my babe on bonnet look in the photo ('err, does the girl come with the car, hee hee' grow up!) but we did get some genuine takers. We had lots of calls but only a couple have actually tried the car. At the moment we are waiting upon some Asian character called 'Ali' to get back to us, who took the car for a drive sporting none other than the socks and sandals look. To be honest, I would gladly walk round in socks and sandals for a day if this guy takes the car off our hands. We have a nervous wait but hopefully in 3 days time I can tell you it was a success!!

In between test drives we decided to make the most of having a car, and we went to Australia Zoo, the home of the Crocodile Hunter, that means Steve Irwin baby! It was pretty cool as unlike most places, the animals just lie there struggling to come to terms with the millions of screaming kids that are harassing them on a daily basis, and here they were all very animated! I don't know if they slip something in the water but even the snakes were dancing around and the tigers were rucking! It was also different because each animal had information next to them, written pretty much as if quoted directly from the croc hunter. Lines such as 'Look at this snake, she's an absolute beauty! But she gets mighty angry' was one of the gems! We spent the day there and went home feeling satisfied that we had stroked a koala and seen 2 otters tearing a water dragon apart, seriously...they had to send in the zoo keepers!

The next day we went to Dreamworld, Australia's answer to Alton Towers. It had about 6 big rides, including the worlds highest vertical drop ride, oh and the Big Brother house is filmed there so we went to have a look around the house (the show is over in Oz). We spent the day getting tossed around and Nic even suffered an injury on one of the high octane rides, Vortex (a kid's ride). Oh dear.