Crocodile Babies

We had really nice weather with a lot of people in the park.

We did our morning feeding and cleaning, while during food preparation Kimberly came running into the kitchen that the Crocodile eggs were hatching. We all went into the reptile room to see them hatch. The rangers helped them get a larger hole in the shell and they just popped out of the eggs like small rockets. The rangers put them straight into a container of water. It was amazing, first crocodile hatching all well done :).

After lunch i got to help with the reptile show, there were a lot of people at the reptile show.

When i got there Jess and Pio were already in the middle of the show. Jess were handling and telling about the Large Burmese python while Pio showed me how to hold and present the Blue thong lizard. So i got a hold of the lizard handling and now i just had to give it to Jess so she could tell about it. After the show we had a touch and hold session where the visitors can try to hold three different reptiles, a large python, a small crocodile and a blue thong skink which i was presenting :) but the crocodile was still in the cart and Jess were holding the skink so i had to hold the python so that Pio could take out the crocodile and swap with Jess. I got the lizard afterwards, it was such a rewarding thing to present the animals to the kids and some of them tried to hold them. What a great day in zoo :)

When i got home i had new roomies again a english couple and an english girl, the english couple went to bed early because they had to leave in the middle of the night to go to the casino and watch WM in Cricket (England - Wales) So i got waked up at around 2am and again at 4 or 5 am when they got home :/ long night.

I have booked a tour to go diving in the Great Barrier Reef on Tuesday and i have found out that the local Yacht club have a 10$(50kr) join for an evening sail every Wednesday so i will join them this Wednesday. Today (Monday) Kimberly has unfortunately got sick so we can't be picked up and we will have an extra day off, so i might go to the museum or aquarium today, but i ill see what i do.

Crocodile Eggs

Rangers helping Babies out of the shell

What a Cuteeeee <3

The crowd at reptile show

Niels, Tommy And Öjvind

When I got home Thursday I got a beer with Niels, Tommy and Öjvind before they headed out to the city with their class mates from university.

They told me they were going to billabong tomorrow with the class, so we might see each other. We were in a rush Friday morning, we been told there was coming 108 students and they were all booked for a guided tour. We just did the necessary feeding and cleaning and then went straight back for a 10 minutes morning tea before the bus full of students arrived. Me and the other volunteers had to do all the food preparation and washup because all the rangers were on tours. I only bumped into Öjvind and Niels for a minute when they were on their way back to the university.

When we cleaned out the Avery we gave Skimms a bath with the hose :)

Even though we skipped a lot of things we were still running late, because of all the guided tours. We got home at 18pm so that was a long day. I made some rice and Beef sausages mix for dinner, i had something for spare that i could have for tea the next day. Friday was my last night with the Norwegians.

Skimms having a shower

The 5 foreigners Gang

Exciting new people! Tuesday (my Saturday) the Indian girl moved out of the hostel and into her apartment early. I got down to the kitchen and had breakfast with Carolina the Spanish girl, Kenzo the Japanese guy and Cansu the Swiss girl. We met a new girl from South Africa, Candis while we were having breakfast. She was pretty cool and we all got really good along together, so we decided to meet up for lunch aswell. When we were having lunch none of us really had any plans, so we figured that we could go to the cinema? Great there was a movie at 1pm. Unfortunately, Carolina and Candis couldn’t come. So, I went out to the cinema with Kenzo and Cansu, pretty close to be the same name, ahah… We thought we were going to see a comedy, it was a bit funny, but it turned out to be more of a family movie which was alright. After the movies we went back to the hostel to chill for a couple of hours before meeting up all together again. So, we decided to go out for dinner together. It was TACO Tuesday, tacos for 3$ (15DKK) we ordered a couple of tacos each and shared a large basket of fries with gravy. After approx. one and a half two hours in the “Court Yard” we decided to go back to the hostel and have some wine or beers and go out after that. It was really funny we had such a great time listening to music and just chilling at the hostel. The clubs opened at 21 and we headed off, we went to “The mad cow” and took a good round of Pool and a couple of drinks :). For a Tuesday we hit the right day there was a Rome costume theme party the same night, so everybody was dressed out with linings over their chests, luckily, we weren’t the only once that haven’t heard about the costumes, all the once in costumes came from the university. Later on, we went out dancing on another club, we got a good group picture on the dance floor. We talked about going out for Acai bowl for brunch tomorrow, everybody wanted to go. But next morning it ended up being only me and Cansu going because the other had to work. It was really great anyways, I have never tried Acai bowl before, so it was kind of an experience.

A Spanish, a Japanese, a Swiss, a South African and a Dane having dinner :)

Group Picture on the dance floor