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Published: 2008-05-30 07:52:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 5299; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 13
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Description This is the first time (of two) that I met Steve Irwin, who was and still is one of my idols and almost solely responsible for my love of animals.

This picture was taken by my mother at the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, which later became Australia Zoo, when I was 5 and I'm happy to report that my dress sense has improved since then.
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TheRainbowDork [2012-08-14 05:25:19 +0000 UTC]

YOU MET HIM??????

wow....thats pretty cool

nice photo too

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TrioART [2009-01-02 12:06:38 +0000 UTC]

He was my biggest idol, and yet the gentlest of creatures took his life. I would do anything to have had a picture with him.

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RandoM-CommentarY In reply to TrioART [2009-01-02 13:37:01 +0000 UTC]

He was mine as well.
It was a massive shock ay. I had been swimming with rays few weeks before ot happened
I'm so glad that I got to meet him

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TrioART In reply to RandoM-CommentarY [2009-01-04 05:56:59 +0000 UTC]

I'm afraid of stingray's now even though it was an accident.

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RandoM-CommentarY In reply to TrioART [2009-01-04 07:46:22 +0000 UTC]

Understandable I guess.
It is a bit scary when your swimming like 50 or 60cm above a 1.5m long ray.

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TrioART In reply to RandoM-CommentarY [2009-01-04 07:51:02 +0000 UTC]

Me = crap my pants...

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RandoM-CommentarY In reply to TrioART [2009-01-04 10:09:07 +0000 UTC]

I wouldn't have traded the experience for the world
Each to their own though

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TrioART In reply to RandoM-CommentarY [2009-01-04 14:50:35 +0000 UTC]

Well, I've never been scuba diving or anything. It's one of my biggest goals in life though.

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RandoM-CommentarY In reply to TrioART [2009-01-17 00:51:01 +0000 UTC]

Its fantastic.
I got to spend a week out in the Great Barrier Reef with school.

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TrioART In reply to RandoM-CommentarY [2009-01-17 05:52:34 +0000 UTC]

Underwater is where I belong. *gigglesnortsigh*

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Pirkleations [2008-08-10 07:29:42 +0000 UTC]

I love watching Steve Irwin!!

It was a sad day for me when we lost such a wonderful human being. But he left a great legacy that will go on thru his wife and child

~D

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RandoM-CommentarY In reply to Pirkleations [2008-08-10 10:49:31 +0000 UTC]

So do I, but watching him in person was something else entirely.

I actually cried when I found out and got picked on so bad by my friends. unfortunately most of them are on the otherside of the whole controvery over him.
I'm hoping to get a job at Australia Zoo working with the big cats in a few years after I finish the course I'm doing at University.
I remember Steve actually telling me when the photo was taken that if I came back when I was 16 I ould get a job there.

Thanks for the comment

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