Terri Irwin

So they would help me.

And sometimes they'd come see me and it would be pouring rain.

And pretty soon they stopped coming.

So I thought, I'm the one that the Jehovah's Witnesses eventually shut the door on, which I thought was pretty funny.

It was pretty funny.

Well, what I used to love to do from the age of about 19 is I was able to save enough money to be able to go to Florida once a year.

So in that construction-related business, January is very slow.

Not much road construction is going on.

All the trucking industry slows down and I could slip away for a week or so.

So I would always go to Florida and I loved the wildlife there.

So, you know, whether I was in Key West or the Tortugas or...

you know Miami or Silver Springs with the manatees it was just a wonderland and so different than Oregon because it's always warm it's just a different climate so for me it was so very special to be able to afford to do that every year and I just enjoyed going and then the irony as my life

went forward was that my life would be so involved with wildlife and working seven days a week and my daughter marrying someone from Florida.

Like it's just, it's just so bizarre how it seemed like my whole young life was leading me towards what my whole life was going to be, you know, and it was allowing that to happen.

Yeah.

Well, it almost wasn't is what's amazing.

So I was over there with friends and we had gone to a barbecue near where Steve's Wildlife Park was.

And we'd had a late night the night before and I was really tired.

So while we're driving back to Brisbane, I was kind of dozing in the back seat.

And the person driving the car said, there's like a little wildlife park here.