Saturday, October 1, 2011

HARTLEYS CROCODILE FARM AND PORT DOUGLAS.

Our last minutes staying in sunny Cairns ticked away and we headed up the coast towards the town of Port Douglas, pretty much the Byron Bay of Queensland. Its super chill and has some spectacular views from the beach. My camera gained a dust spot so i have random black spots in my photo's but oh well, you get the idea. On the way to Port Douglas we had some time to kill, and to our luck we encountered Hartley's Crocodile farm. We walked in and just got the end of the Saltwater croc show. Those things grow so big and are so sneaky. As you can see from the photo's they can jump super far out of the water, usually to grap snakes and birds out of tree's. We then moved over to a freshwater crocodile demonstration which weren't as big, but had much sharper teeth, The guy running the show actually jumped in with the crocodiles! Within about ten minutes they all surrounded him and he had to make a sweet escape. Later in the afternoon we did a croc tour in some little boat and went out in a small river system and fed the crocodiles, i didn't have a good zoom lens when taking these photo's they were actually that close. After that we watched a reptile show and some crocodile attack show which were pretty crazy, the guy almost had his foot bitten off haha. After that we continued the rest of our journey reaching our destination. We went for a walk and watched the sun set and finished the day drinking Corona's like kings.

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