When a hero falls }{ a hole is left behind.

[Bhu ♥ Irwin]

Stephen Robert Irwin died at age 44 on September 4th 2006. That was six years ago. It sure doesn't feel that long ago. In memory of him, I am plastering a video I made him 6years ago in this thread. I will also be pasting a short biography of the man. I ask that anyone who feels they lost an idol that day make some devotion for him, or find one you like and share it. Do as many as you want. if you do take someone else's, because to leave all credit to them. I will be posting things I make and that other's have made throughout the week, and maybe beyond. Every year, September 4th awakens a mourner in me...and that mourner stays around for extended periods of time.

[Bhu ♥ Irwin]

Synopsis
Don't you know you need to stand and shout out loud and make your message heard.
Stephen Irwin (b. 22 February 1962 in Essendon, Australia) was an Australian television personality, wildlife expert, and conservationist. Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series. Irwin died in 2006 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb off the Australia's Great Barrier Reef.






To change this world
You need the heart of a lion

Stephen Robert Irwin was born to Lyn and Bob Irwin on 22 February, 1962, in upper Fern Tree Gully, Victoria. He moved with his parents and two sisters to Beerwah, Queensland, where his folks opened the Beerwah Reptile and Fauna Park in 1970.

To change this world
You need the faith of a child

Steve grew up loving all wildlife, especially reptiles. He caught his first venomous snake (a Common Brown) at the tender age of six and would often arrive late to school after convincing his mother to pull over so he could rescue a lizard off the road.

To change this world
To be a hero
You've gotta tangle with danger

By the time he was nine-years-old, he was helping his dad catch small problem crocodiles hanging around boat ramps by jumping on them in the water and wrestling them back into the dinghy. He always had an uncanny sixth sense when it came to wildlife and he spent his life honing that skill.

Holding onto nature

In the 1980s Steve spent months on end living in the most remote areas of far North Queensland catching problem crocodiles before they ended up shot by a poacher’s bullet. He worked with his little dog, Sui, and developed crocodile capture and management techniques that are now utilised with crocodilians around the world.

And never letting go

By 1980, the family wildlife park was called the ‘Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park’ and where Steve called home. Steve and his best mate, Wes Mannion, worked countless hours caring for the wildlife and maintaining the grounds.

To change this world

In 1991 Steve took over managing the wildlife park and met Terri Rains, a visiting tourist, on 6 October. Steve and Terri were married in Eugene, Oregon, on 4 June 1992 at the Methodist church Terri’s grandmother used to attend.

And all at once
Voices from the wilderness
Will be calling out your name

Instead of a honeymoon, the couple embarked on filming a wildlife documentary with John Stainton from the ‘Best Picture Show’ company. The show was so successful it turned into a series and the Crocodile Hunter was born.

Now we're apart
Those voices fill my heart

After Steve’s parents retired in the 1992 Steve worked tirelessly to improve and expand his wildlife park. Re-naming it Australia Zoo in 1998, Steve’s vision for the world’s best Zoo was coming to fruition. In July 2006 Steve set out his ten year business plan for his beloved zoo. He couldn’t know he would be gone just two months later, but he believed his conservation work would go on. His two beautiful children will make sure it does.

To change this world
Crikey what an adventure
To change this world
And make a better place
Don't you know we need to touch a billion people and make your message heard
To change this world
You changed my world

Song: Change This World (a Steve Irwin Tribute) by Daniel Mcgahan[/size]

[Bhu ♥ Irwin]

Now, one of my personal tributes to him. I made this video 6 years ago when I heard of his death. I had never made a video before so Becca (Belatrix) helped me through it. Once she got it through my head how to work the movie maker, I stayed up well into the night working on this. I plan to one day make one that is far grander than this, if I ever have a movie maker program again. Mr. Irwin deserves it; he was, afterall, my one and only human hero.

[Kunabee]

Bye, Steve Irwin...