Australia Part Two: Zoo and Ziplining

Kangaroos and koalas were on my bucket list when I came to Australia. So my grandparents took us to a zoo where we could touch crocodiles and snakes and actually feed baby kangaroos! Exotic parrots were flying around our head and we saw a cassowary bird.

The baby kangaroos were so cute I could barely stand it! After our zoo experience we had lunch and drove up to Daintree rainforest. Daintree is the oldest rainforest on earth, at least 95 million years old. In some places, it's three times as old as the Amazon! We hiked up to the zipline, which was maybe a ten minute walk at most. We passed more plant species in that short walk than in all of Europe and North America combined! It was a spectacular view, at one point in the zipline they stopped us over a river that was about a hundred below and let us dangle. It was beautiful. 

They wrote cool names on our helmets. I was Pippi Longstocking, Siena was Mary Poppins, Grandma was Cookie Monster, and Grandpa was King Kong.

Yes, I'm zip-lining upside down.