6th day, Thursday

Today we left the island and headed back home. We stopped off at the Australia Zoo, “home of the Crocodile Hunter!”. You know, Steve Irwin?...The guy who shouts “Crikey!” Anyway, he was actually there, but he wasn’t doing the croc show because he was doing some press conference with John Howard, Australia’s Prime Minister (like our president). I did get a glancing picture of him…the “Crikey” guy, not John Howard. I do have to say, our Secret Service agents are much better dressed than their Australian counterparts. We spent that night further down the coast in Surfer’s Paradise and had dinner at the Hard Rock Café there.