Beau and Monique, Dogs, Dog, Travel, Australia, Photos and Pictures

Crikey! Join the party at Australia Zoo on July 24, when our pint-sized Wildlife Warrior turns 11!It’s Bindi’s Birthday and she wants all kids to come to the Zoo for FREE* to join her you-beaut Masquerade party!Gates are set to open at 8:00am so get in early to get a FREE muffin and enjoy all the marvelous masquerade action…

What’s on:

• Jessica Mauboy is coming along to perform for everyone in the Crocoseum. Wooo-hoo! Note: this performance will affect the normal morning show time.

• Dance dance dance in the giant ballroom smack-bang in the middle of the Zoo! Learn how to dance like a fairytale Princess from the very best.

• Circus act ‘Flipside’ will be joining in on the action and holding circus lessons throughout the day. Bring your little ‘jesters in training’ along to learn to juggle, fly on the MASSIVE trapeze, throw a diablo, or hula hoop all day long!

• Don’t forget it’s a Masquerade party to come dressed in your best Masquerade attire. Plus register at admissions from 8:00am for the Crocoseum fashion parade for your chance to WIN some ripper prizes. Categories include Prince and Princesses (0-12yrs) and Kings and Queens (13yrs +) but hurry, there are only 20 places available for each!

• Be one of the first 1000 people through the gates (opening early at 8am on July 24) and receive a FREE DVD thanks to Magna Pacific

• Register to take part in the fun cookie and cupcake decorating classes run by Green’s. How good is this, you even get to taste test your own artwork afterwards!

• If you leave your masquerade masks at home, you can get FREE Masquerade face painting throughout the day.

• Put your creative skills to the test with our mask making craft activity and have a go at the very special Bindi’s Birthday colouring competition to win a ripper prize! Or get creative with SandWizard and do Sand Art with SandWizard. Creative, magical fun, for everyone! For more information about SandWizard, click HERE!

Plus, don’t forget to enter our Major Prize Draw competition for your chance to WIN some awesome prizes, including a Magna Pacific prize pack, a Body Shop pamper pack, a Greens hamper filled with delicious goodies and much much more!

Don’t miss Bindi’s 11th Birthday- it will be the biggest and wildest yet! Stay tuned for more details and updates.

*Kids aged up to 14 years accompanied by an adult will receive FREE entry into Australia Zoo on 24 July.
 

Jaz faces a dilemma when she attempts to retrain her show-jumping horse, Annie, to work on the property. Does Annie really belong here? And can Jaz choose between Annie and her new life on Drovers Run? Grace and Stevie are surprised when Jaz rides up on Annie to help move some cattle. Annie’s a show-jumper — it’s not as if he can suddenly transform herself into a working horse. But Jaz is confident she can retrain Annie. She’s been working on her aversion to hay bails and demonstrates that she can keep her under control. Grace and Stevie agree to give Annie a go, but as soon as they start moving the cattle Annie gets spooked and drives two cows into a steep ditch, seriously injuring them. Stevie has to point out to Jaz they Annie is a liability to Drovers and that she needs to use the brumby they have trained for stock work. They can’t afford to lose any more stuff ups.A devastated Jaz takes exiled Annie to the back paddock to retire her but it’s too much for Jaz, she can’t leave Annie out there. So she decides that she will secretly work on Annie to get to the bottom of why she is spooked. Ben helps her along the way. Ingrid is seriously rattled when she realises that her work as a vet will bring her in direct contact with Paul, her estranged husband, who is in the area investigating a cattle-stealing ring. Paul is charming and apologetic, but Ingrid doesn’t trust his motives. Meanwhile, Paul pursues Marcus on a deserted back road. Is he intent on harming him? Marcus is forced to pull over, and Paul reveals that Marcus has a punctured tyre and that he has saved him from a possible accident. Marcus doesn’t know what to think and suggests to Ingrid that Paul may have changed his spots, but Ingrid doesn’t believe it for a second. Her suspicions are confirmed when she discovers that Paul knows that she and Marcus are lovers. Fearing for Marcus’ life, Ingrid and Grace race to find him. Ingrid’s life hangs in the balance when Paul threatens to kill her unless she returns to him. A week after the Drover’s girls   thought they had banished Paul for good, Ingrid and Stevie are involved in a car accident when Ingrid’s brakes fail. A check over of the car reveals that the brake fluid has been drained, and Paul is the only suspect. He appears on the property shortly afterwards, under the guise of checking cattle records, but his real agenda is soon revealed to Ingrid. He has come to reclaim her, dead or alive. Ingrid, unable to tell Marcus about Paul for fear of how he might react, seems to make a decision to run away to save herself, her lover and her friends from Paul. Preparing to do so, she delivers a letter to Stevie (via Patrick). It is not long before her car is found by Marcus on the side of the road, smashed and covered in blood, but with no sign of Ingrid. Meanwhile Phil’s musical tribute to Moira, ‘The Girl from Gungellan’, is about to premiere. Amidst the hullabaloo of rehearsals, Moira overhears a phone message from a young woman. Convinced Phil’s having an affair, she confronts him. He reveals the message was from his son’s fiancé. Phil has been invited to the wedding but is refusing to go. Moira contacts Phil’s estranged son, Phil Junior, in the hope that reuniting him with his own family will take the pressure off her. Phil hits the roof over her interference. But later, when he’s on his own, Phil rings his son, and is overjoyed to receive a warm welcome. Phil is hugely grateful to Moira, and things seem to be back on track between them. During the opening performance of The Girl from Gungellan, Phil lets slip that he wants them to buy a property near his son. Moira is upset, and abandons the show mid-performance. As the show continues without them, Moira tells Phil that he should go on his own, and sort out what he really wants. A broken-hearted Phil leaves. In the final telemovie-length episode of McLeod’s Daughters, Drovers’ future is in doubt and the girls pull out all stops to shear through the night to try and save the farm, and their futures. It’s six months since our last episode. High summer is looming and the ongoing drought has forced drastic action. All the sheep are being mustered and shorn to sell off so the remaining stored feed can help keep the cattle going through the next months. Stevie is nursing a secret; the financial situation is even more dire than she’s told the others. The whole future of Drovers rests on this plan. Stevie’s secret is revealed halfway through the shear when, to avoid mutiny, Stevie confesses all. Drovers is in terrible financial trouble. She hasn’t been drawing herself a wage for the last six months, opting not to pay herself, in order to avoid having to sack one of the girls. was supposed to help get the cattle through the next few months is gone.

It seems that, once again, “human problems”are showing how they effect non-humans as well. In the latest display of the climate change domino effect. Australian’s native koalas are the victims. New studies show that the rising levvel of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere depeletes nutriens from the leaves of the eucalyptus tree- the primar, and often only source of food for the koala. Researchers working on the study also found that the amount of toxicity in the leaves of eucalyptus trees rose when the level of carbon dioxide was increased. Ian Hume, emeritus of biology at Sydney University, estimated that if current levels of global CO2 emissions remained stagnant, it would result in a noticeable reduction in the koala population in only 50 years. Koalas who have already been displaced from the most nutritous trees on fertile land due to farming and suburb production, only eat the leaves of about 25 of the 600 species of eucalyptus in Australia, a number that Hume believes will be reduced drastically in the very near future. Sent to me by Collin Wood, thank you .