On Hamilton Island there was a small zoo. They had an amazing bird show where a woman had several lorikeets do some incredible tricks - and one lorikeet was 75 years old. The white one here is the cockatoo. The others just bother you whenever you have any food outside, even taking it off your table at outdoor restaurants - they're lorikeets.
Then, every morning they have their crocodile feeding. They just hang part of a chicken on a line attached to a stick and eventually the crocodile makes its way over the chicken and starts snapping at it while the feeder jerks it out of reach and crowds look on pressed up against some very thin wire fence.
There are kangaroos all over the place in the park, and the island has some wild wallabees which are smaller than kangaroos but otherwise look very similar. Every now and then we some them on the island as we were walking around. Here, Michael pets a kangaroo in the park (nice hat).
The park also has the only place in Australia (so they say) where you can hold a koala (AUS $7 including one polaroid). We did it and the koala was very small and cute and just held onto the stuffed animal as we held it and petted it. It almost seemed like it was drugged, but apparently they are just lethargic animals and they sleep all the time. The one we held was 8 months old and his name was gumdrop. That picture isn't very good, so here is a picture of Gumdrop's brother, sleeping in a tree.
