my father was born in Australia
Wow, the land down under. I spent a little time there and also in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia to the north.
He was born in Sydney, in a cab on the way to the hospital..lol
Was he named after the cab driver? Dose he speak any of the 250 native languages? 
no he wasent, unless the cab drivers name was Sydney also. He only speaks English
I find it strange that Sydney is the largest urban area but not the Capital. 
So true, I have actually never been able to visit Australia sadly
It's time to go. I went a few years ago. I went to Melbourne  which is the 2nd biggest city.
Is that where the Zoo is? The one that Steve Irwin ran?
Park. Their son Steve had helped his parents since childhood to care for crocodiles and reptiles and to maintain the growing number of animals in the zoo. In 1982 the park was renamed the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park and the area was doubled with the purchase of another . Steve and Terri changed the name of their now growing wildlife park to Australia Zoo. As filming generated extra funds, Steve and Terri put all money raised from filming and merchandise into conservation and building new exhibits.
Australia Zoo won the Australian Tourism Awards
's Hospital in Manhattan and spent his early years in the Bronx. His father, Wyatt Cenac Sr., was a cab driver born in Saint Mark Parish, Grenada in 1944. When Cenac was five, his father was shot and killed in his cab by a teenage passenger in Harlem. Cenac moved with his mother, a New York native, and Trinidadian stepfather to Dallas, Texas in 1981. He spent his summers with his maternal grandmother in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in an apartment on President Street.
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