- Due to a lack of doing anything remotely interesting and worth reporting, I have just grouped these days together.
- An interesting fact, mainly just to fill some space here, is that the forecast for Cairns is consistently without fail, "Possible Showers, 31 degree's". It would be an easy job to be a weather man here!
- We decided to treat ourselves to a day out on Friday as we were bored as bat poo. We spent the day at Hartley's Crocodiles Adventure Park, as we thought it would kill some time and also might possibly learn something about our new fishing companions...
It is a terrifying sound to hear their jaws slam shut and also the growling noise they make...
The skin of a crocodile is worth $12.50 per cm2! Not bad hey... The best skin is the under belly.
How would you like this job??
(These are freshwater crocs so not aggressive like their saltwater brothers)...
A clown who likes snakes way too much... his talk was really entertaining though and we even learnt how to do first aid on a snake bite...
This guy showed us how the croc does a death roll, using chicken though not his leg...
We finally, after much anticipation, saw our first live Cassowary. Not so scary after all. Even tried to fed her although she was not into apple today...
Getting more closely acquainted...
We took the cruise around the lagoon, where they fed the crocs... was pretty cool seeing them jump out of the water. I got video of it too and if I can work out how to crop it down, I'll try put that on the blog too...
- On our way out, we checked out the pond that 'Louie' lives in. He is a 4.7m, 700kg croc and when we had walked past earlier he was no where to be seen. It was close to closing time so no-one was around. Before I could say anything, Geoff came charging towards Louie's enclosure with a large 3m stick in tow. He promptly started splashing the pond where Louie lives, hoping to arouse the old croc from the bottom of his pond. Geoff clearly didn't see the large "DO NOT PROVOKE" sign, and obviously thought after his day at the croc park that he now possessed the skills required to be a experienced croc handler. Well, I was beside myself trying to control my husband as the small fence, definitely in my opinion, seemed inadequate. While Geoff was carrying on like a pork chop he failed to notice Louie's girlfriend slip into the water. And we both got quite a fright when she suddenly, out of nowhere attacked the end of the stick geoff was wildly banging on the water. Big Louie now was quite interested aswell and moved to within 1m of us on the other side of the ridiculously small inadequate fence. Pleading for my life, Geoff finally put the stick down (probably also due to how big Louie actually was) and we lived to tell this story. He thought it was great fun and the highlight of his day. I disagreed strongly.
- Well, that's about it. We have had two calls for the caravan in the last 2 days - no sale just yet. We were planning to leave Cairns tomorrow but now need to wait for a part to be sent here to fix our water pump - it decided not to work anymore. So, we'll be here for a few more days yet.
- Oh, I nearly forgot... Geoff wants me to mention he played Golf on Saturday and he is actually also out playing golf at the moment.
wow that croc looks really scary they make me think of dinosaurs how freaky would it be to live on earth when there were dinosaurs around. Imagine living back in noahs day its amazing they lived so long back then. Your sand jars look really cool. xxxxx corina xxxxx
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