{"id":598,"date":"2008-12-11T10:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T10:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:55:52","slug":"still-in-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Something&#8217;s happening at the zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 13, 2008<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kangaroo at the Australian Zoo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3091\/3099315649_2cd7b35096.jpg\" alt=\"Kangaroo at the Australian Zoo\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kangaroo at the Australian Zoo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are still in the Scarborough Marina getting the boat ready to be stored for the season.\u00a0 She gets hauled next Wednesday and we leave for the US two days later.\u00a0 We have been able to visit with friends and tour some of southeastern Queensland.\u00a0 Most of these photos are from Steve Irwin&#8217;s (the Crocodile Hunter) Australia Zoo.\u00a0 We went with our friends from Tackless II (Don and Gwen) and Whistler (Duncan and Robin).\u00a0 Tackless II brought Joshua, their grandson&#8217;s teddy bear, and took photos of Joshua meeting the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Mark<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Koalas\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3196\/3099315021_918847b2a8.jpg\" alt=\"Koalas\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koalas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Flamboyant tree in Scarborough\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3199\/3099314623_de4c93a9c6.jpg\" alt=\"Flamboyant tree in Scarborough\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flamboyant tree in Scarborough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Talking cockatoo meets with Joshua the teddy bear\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3259\/3099315403_34a7a2726f.jpg\" alt=\"Talking cockatoo meets with Joshua the teddy bear\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talking cockatoo meets with Joshua the teddy bear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Wombat follows a zookeeper\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3017\/3100147940_9c711202bd.jpg\" alt=\"Wombat follows a zookeeper\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wombat follows a zookeeper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Crocodile threatens Joshua the teddy bear\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3255\/3100147484_4016ae2b2f.jpg\" alt=\"Crocodile threatens Joshua the teddy bear\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crocodile threatens Joshua the teddy bear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 13, 2008 We are still in the Scarborough Marina getting the boat ready to be stored for the season.\u00a0 She gets hauled next Wednesday and we leave for the US two days later.\u00a0 We have been able to visit with friends and tour some of southeastern Queensland.\u00a0 Most of these photos are from Steve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Something&#8217;s happening at the zoo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-fall-2008","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}