My Australia

On the 21 of December 2009 I went on a plane to Aussie. And right now on the second of January I am in the gold coast. And I am going down to Melbourne. I went to the Australian Zoo and I saw otters, tigers, elephants, lizards, crocodiles, dingo, and I saw Bindi. And I saw kangaroos and one had two joeys.

We went to the Great Barrier Reef and I went snorkeling and I got stung by a jelly fish. I saw beautiful fish. I wanted to see a turtle but we didn't.

We went to the Daintree and cassowaries kept on coming to our tent. The Daintree is a national park. It is beach and rainforest. The rainforests had waterfalls. They are the oldest rainforest in the world, and it is even older then the Amazon. I made up a song about cassowaries. The beaches have different sand than in New Zealand.

We went to another national park, we camp there and there was a koala up in the tree.

These are the animals I have seen so far. Peacocks, cassowaries, lizards, frogs, wild pigs, kangaroos, ants, butterflies, tropical fish, coral, parrots, wild turkeys, wild horses, flying foxes (that is a type of bat), swamp hen (pukekos), crabs, ducks, dingos, emus, wallabies, crocodiles, dolphins, kookaburras, and the biggest spider I have ever seen, it was even bigger than my hand.

So this is the 21st of December to the second of January, 2009 and 2010. We still have two and a half weeks to go until we are in Melbourne.

- as told by Esmee