Bindi Irwin shares photos of her family in Florida and Oregon and says she is missing them as the US continues to battle the coronavirus
Bindi Irwin stays busy taking care of her late father’s zoo in Australia alongside her mother Terri, younger brother Robert, and her husband Chandler.
But on Tuesday, the conservationist, 21, said she’s been missing her family in the U.S amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Wildlife Warrior shared several photos from recent trips to the States visiting Oregon, where her mother Terri is originally from.
‘Missing them all so much’: Bindi Irwin shared photos of her family in Florida and Oregon and says she is missing them as the US continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic
She also included pictures Florida, where her husband Chandler’s family lives.
The brunette beauty wrote in the caption: ‘Thinking of my lovely family in Florida and Oregon and looking back on these cherished memories captured on camera.
‘Missing them all so much. This pandemic has changed our lives. Sending love and strength your way.’
Bindi’s heartfelt message to her family in America comes as Florida recorded 89,557 cases, while Oregon recorded 15, 257 cases, according to the latest numbers as of Wednesday July 22.
‘Thinking of my lovely family’: The Wildlife Warrior shared several photos from recent trips to the States visiting Oregon, where her mother Terri is originally from (Bindi and Chandler pictured with relatives)
‘Sending love and strength your way’: She also included pictures Florida, where her husband Chandler’s family lives. Bindi wrote in the caption ‘This pandemic has changed our lives. Sending love and strength your way’
Bindi and Chandler’s family in the US were unable attend their wedding at Australia Zoo back in March as the Australian Government enforced strict border closures because of the pandemic.
The trailer for the latest season of ‘Crikey! It’s the Irwins: Life in Lockdown’ shows the Irwins family and their zoo staff go into survival mode in response to the lockdown measures.
Terri revealed the zoo spends a whopping $400,000 per week on wages, plus $78,914 on food for the animals.
Survival mode: The trailer for the latest season of ‘Crikey! It’s the Irwins: Life in Lockdown’ shows the Irwins family and their zoo staff go into survival mode in response to the lockdown measures
To make ends meet, she was forced to cut jobs and operate with a skeleton crew of employees and the family take on more work to help maintain the zoo during strict lockdowns.
Terri said in the episode, set to air on Animal Planet in August: ‘I’m the pilot of a big plane and the plane is going down, and I’m handing out all the parachutes I’ve got.
‘Sometimes at the end of the day I’ve just got my head in my hands wondering what we’re going to do tomorrow.’
Terri said she, ‘can’t even come close’ to paying the bills.
Double the work: To make ends meet, she was forced to cut jobs and operate with a skeleton crew of employees and the family take on more work to help maintain the zoo during strict lockdowns
Terri said the zoo’s hardship was particularly emotional due to a promise she made to Steve, who converted his family’s Beerwah wildlife park to Australia Zoo in the 1990s.
‘This was Steve’s passion. Steve would say to me, “if anything happens to me, make sure the zoo continues”. So it’s really important that we keep this going,’ she said.
Steve tragically died on September 4, 2006, after a stingray attack at Batt Reef near Port Douglas, Queensland. He was 44.
Crikey! It’s the Irwins: Life in Lockdown will document the family’s time in lockdown at the Sunshine Coast tourist attraction, it premieres on Saturday, August 1 at 7.30pm on Animal Planet.
‘It’s really important that we keep this going’: Terri said the zoo’s hardship was particularly emotional due to a promise she made to her late husband Steve (pictured together), who converted his family’s Beerwah wildlife park to Australia Zoo in the 1990s