Hartley's Crocodile Farm

No post last weekend. It was a relaxation weekend with no events. But this weekend we went to Hartley's Crocodile Farm. It was pretty cool. It's pretty much a zoo, but they focus heavily on crocs. Aside from walking around like most zoos, you also get to go out in their boats to check out crocs in the lagoon. It's neat cause they're just swimming around. Then he feeds them a bit with his food on a stick. They jump way out of the water trying to get his chicken heads.

This is a little girl croc. They get much bigger. In this zoo there is also a small crocodile farm. Here they bread and raise crocs for their skin and for meat. He said they use all the skin for leather, the meat gets served around Cairns and Port Douglas and the hands get sold for back scratchers. There was a ton of crocs in pens being raised for this. It was a little sad cause they're so cute when they're small, but I'm still going to buy myself a crocodile leather belt one day ($200!!). That's all for today, I might go hiking tomorrow again depending on the weather.

Nick