Darwin - Crocosaurus Cove

Today we went to Crocosaurus Cove with a VIP tour. The tour was insightful and the aussie guiding us knew lots of facts and knew the crocodiles well! We started the tour in fresh water aquarium before moving on to looking at the big crocs, and learning abit about them and where they came from. We went on to feed Burt, the famous 80 year old from crocodile Dundee who is a bachelor, after attacking most of the females in his life. We fed him some suspicious looking hearts which was our first experience of hearing the jaw 'pop'. We also held the baby crocs, along with a snake and the frill necked lizard. We learnt that the big crocs have all been captured due to being deemed a hazard to humans in the wild. Although Croc farms aren't natural, the guide made a good point about the fact these farms protect the wold crocs from being hunted for their meat and their leather and told us the population is 1 Croc to 1 human in the northern territory. Burt had a missing leg, which unlike Randall, is from an operation (Randall's was most likely from a fight with a fellow crocodile). The guide told us how these injuries don't affect their abilities at all and that their bodies can stop the blood supply from leaving the limb. Burt also had a missing eye and a tooth hanging off! We found out they go through 3000 teeth in their lifetime as they regularly fall out and gain new teeth. There were only 2 crocodiles cohabiting there, which we were told is very rare as crocodiles are very territorial, but Will and Kate have been living together for 30 years now, and have babies each year. The size difference between them was vast, with Kate only being around 2 metres, and Will, like the others was 5 metres. We were told this didn't make her any less scary!Read more