June 05, 2006

a day as a zoo keeper in the Australian Outback

4 June 2006, Kelly and Joanna from the zoo docents are allocated to be attached to the Australian Outback section of the day zoo.

Our main duty was to sweep the leaves, hay and poo from the main Kangaroo enclosure area and its den. The area to cover is huge and thank goodness there are 2 of us. There are lots of sweat and sweat and sweat.. and by the first 15mins, i think my sweat has soak through all my clothes!!

Kelly and Fiona (keeper)


Joanna sweeping away... you can see the area that we have to cover!!


Kelly at the Kangaroo's den... its freaking hot and sweaty but its just not obvious here


wearing rubber boots and using the rack to sweep up leaves and roo's poo.. the pile is much smaller as this is in the den... you should have seen the bins of leaves and poo we swept!!!!


this is the den after I am done with it.. sparkling clean!!!



Kelly and the roos....


we have to supervise the hand-feeding sessions at 11am and 4pm that day.
there are 10 cups to be sold each time and 1 cup costs $5. The kids love it, the roos love it.. hah.. but there are always the one stupid kid who tries to step on the roo's tail...here's a pic of how it is..


the roos!!




we ended about 4.30pm.. i took a shower at the keeper's rest area and waited for my enxt shift at the Night Safari..we started around 6pm and ended at 10pm.. no pictures to show.. *yawn*

when I reached home and took my shower.. to my horror, i saw this!! both legs! omg.. looks like some allergy .. does not itch thou.. but swelled a bit.. gotta see a doc today

10 comments:

Goat Almighty said...

i think those are heat rash from all that sweat.

Marc said...

definitely looks like a rash to me. allergic to roo poo maybe? yeah, best to go see a doc and scope it out

oceanskies79 said...

Hope you can catch up on your rest. May the rash go away.

Anonymous said...

kitcat! At the zoo! I bet you're very happy you get to do what you love the most.

mistipurple said...

cool! looks like you enjoyed yourself. can't stand the heat though.
hope your rash is better.

Jane said...

ooh..wanna see when you go for koala!
do they have koala there?
the roos caused you that??? mmmm....

L B said...

Awww, Skippy!!!!

goldilocks said...

or is it rash coz of the grass?

crazycat said...

SA: hehe, the roos are a hit!! and the roos dun step back, we do.. haah

m, calamity man, goldilocks: no, not heat rash...

oceanskies: it seem never enuff time for rest!!

kracker: about time u show up too!! and yes, i am happy :P

misti: yes, confirm enjoy..and no, its not a rash

jane: we dun hv koalas :(

lb: there are 9 girl skippys and 1 shy guy skippy.. haha

dreaming-neko said...

such a glamorous zoo-keeper! :P