The second week in Australia Zoo was much better than the first week. I was working in the bird section and then native mammals which i absolutely loved. I took care of my favourite, Sky, which is an orphan kangaroo joey and just the sweetest thing. His mum was killed in a car accident and he has his own enclosure with a bed which is like his mums pouch. I also enjoyed working in the koala walk where I could stand by the koalas and let people pat them and answer questions. These were the most enjoyable things I did in the zoo. The people at the zoo are really cool and I made a lot of good friends so it was a bit sad to go but now I am very glad not to be picking up garbage, pooraking or raking leafs ;) The last days I stayed with Sandi, a volunteer like me because my roommate was fired from the zoo because of attitute problems... So i was left all alone with skyhigh rent and Sandi completely saved me. It was great to have company at last. The only bad thing about the Zoo when it rains are the damn mozzies... They had a big fiest on me and those flying devils eat through clothes, horrible things.
My darling cousin Stella and her familiy came and visited the Zoo on my last day and I went home with them and stayed there for few days. I am so lucky to have such caring relatives ;) And now I have been in Byron Bay for 2 days and am having a blast here. I met a welsh girl in the bus, Caroline, and we have become good friends. We walked to the lighthouse and to the Eastest part of the Australian mainland and yesterday we met my friend Sylvie. Sylvie is the girl I met in the airplane on my way to Australia and we met again in Airlie beach and then I got an e-mail from her yesterday morning where she said she was in Byron Bay... it was amazing coincidence that she wrote that e-mail exactly the day i was here. With her we went to a Hari Krishna gathering which was very interesting ;) There we met all the funkiest people in town. Byron Bay contains many modern-hippies, the flower children today and here are many colorful people ;) The rest of the evening we spent listening to live music, didgeridoo and irish bands ;) Magga, Oli, Sigga and Gardar (My irish band): i saw a fantastic irish band called Shannon i think. They were playing accordium (harmonikka), violin, tin whistle, banjo, small guitar, guitar and a singer. Only 4 people, very talanted. Reeeeally good !!!
Tonight I am taking the bus to Newcastle to see my norwegian friend Bente which I havnt seen for a year i think. She came to Australia few weeks ago to study. It will be great seeing you again Bente ;)

I MET AND TALKED TO STEVE IRWIN !!!!! He, Terri and Bindi were behind a fence and we didnt realise at first who they were, and then they started speaking to us and we all had a good minute chit chat about the passionfruit tree that brought us toghether ;) And yesterday I was doing crowd control when they were filming at the zoo, that was fantaaastic. Now it is my day off and I am so glad because I am completely exhausted after this first week. I am really enjoying my work at the zoo but now I am thinking that I might just stay another week. That will give me more time to travel, it is so strange that I only have a month and a half left in Australia...

Very long time since I wrote and I have very little time to write since I am situated in the middle of nowhere, an hours walk to reach internet !!! I have been doing sooo much since I last wrote and I wont be able to write about it all now... So I will try to put it as short as I can.
Shark Bay
One of the highlights of my trip, an amazing experience. I met my coworker Darren in the bus from Perth and he is just an amazing character, thank you Darren for teaching me all that meaningless aussie slang and being a great friend. And then ofcourse there was Blair, the bushman who died his hair blond and scared all the wallaby's ;) Thanks to Blair I got the chance to do what I mostly wanted to do in Australia, spend time with endangered animals and do something to help them. We were radiotracking woylies at night and I also helped in the breeding centre (they are breeding endangered animals like Bilbies, woylies, malas etc.) and I also spent couple of days working with the dolphins in Monkey Mia. Amazing two weeks.
Australia Zoo
After 4 DAYS in train and bus, I finally got to Brisbane... I can never complain about long and uncomfortable travels after that experience, dont recommend it ;) I had half a day in Sydney and managed to meet Luke, my irish mate since Fraser island for couple of beers. My cousin Stella was so extremely sweet to pick me up in Brisbane and drive me to Australia Zoo. I am staying at a motorlodge 1,5 km from the zoo, and it is very isolated, but very nice. I have TV, air con, swimming pool and a microwave in my room ;) I have met very good people at the zoo and the work is fun. The first two days I was in the croc section, but we are not allowed to go near them, but I was in crowd control at the shows, and Terri Irwin did one of the shows. Steve is now overseas but he could pop in any time. Today I was at the Kids Zoo, walking goats and kalf and helping with the feeding. That was good ;) Today was special, both because of my birthday ofcourse and they were celebrating Valentines day, so there was a lot of things going on. Musicians, facepantings, free chocolate etc. I will be here for another 3 or 4 weeks, I am not sure if I will be here all the time I had planned, perhaps I will get enough of poo cleaning in 3 weeks... I am still trying to decide ;)