{"id":1041,"date":"2010-04-29T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2010-04-29T00:03:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T07:03:21","slug":"anzac-day-on-the-sunshine-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"ANZAC Day on the Sunshine Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia and New Zealand Army Corp (ANZAC) Day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.\u00c2\u00a0 It is also a day to remember all of the veteran’s in Australia.\u00c2\u00a0 But, what it meant for us is that we got a long weekend to spend on the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n

After arriving in Brisbane and settling into the apartment for the week, we took the train\/bus to the Sunshine Coast on Friday evening, which was about a three hour journey to the town of Noosa, north of Brisbane.<\/p>\n

Since Brisbane has more tropical weather than Melbourne, it was warm and sunny most of the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 On Saturday, we decided to take it easy and head to Noosa’s main beach for some window shopping and relaxing by the waves.\u00c2\u00a0 We also made an appearance at the hotel pool.\u00c2\u00a0 What a rough life!<\/p>\n

By Sunday we were ready for some excitement and Scott has been claiming that he knew how to sail, so we rented a catamaran to sail the Noosa River.\u00c2\u00a0 Turned out to be a beautiful day and we got the hang of the sailing thing after getting stuck on a sandbar in the middle of the river, which we decided was a good place to stop to have eat the picnic lunch that we had packed.<\/p>\n

On Monday, we headed to the Australia Zoo, home of the late Steve Irwin (the Crocodile Hunter).\u00c2\u00a0 We took the Aussie Zoo shuttle, which was complete with Crocodile Hunter shows playing on the tellie.<\/p>\n

We got to see kangaroos, wombats, koalas, and all sorts of other animals, but what we were really there to see were the crocodiles.\u00c2\u00a0 Or first experience with the crocs was in the Crococeum, which was the main stage for the shows.\u00c2\u00a0 We got to see first hand how they feed the crocs and how to defend ourselves against an attack in the wild.\u00c2\u00a0 After that we wondered around to see of the other crocs they had at the zoo, which were mostly caught in the wild by Steve himself.<\/p>\n

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Warning sign at the Australia Zoo<\/p><\/div>\n

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Croc lounging in the sun<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wombat (thats for you Mel!)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Scott hanging with the kangaroos<\/p><\/div>\n

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Petting a koala (so cute and soft)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia and New Zealand Army Corp (ANZAC) Day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.\u00c2\u00a0 It is also a day to remember all of the veteran’s in Australia.\u00c2\u00a0 But, what it meant for us is that we got a long weekend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,57],"tags":[96,102],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-queensland","tag-australia","tag-queensland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}