Last day in Darwin! We slept in all the way to 8am! Much better then 5:30am. Finally got to eat the free breakfast at the hostel. Turns out is was bread, butter, and orange marmalade at the front desk. He had to go upstairs to the kitchen to even toast it. We were a little disappointed. We then had to pack up all of our stuff and store it at the hostel and check out. We walked across the street to the tour company because we had no been reimbursed for our park fees yet. It was a huge hassle of back and forth. Eventually they said that the travel agent I booked the tour through had the money and I had to contact him in order to get refunded.
We then walked another block to the Crocasaurus Cove. Here we got to see crocs, hatchlings, juveniles, turtles, and other reptiles. We wanted to hold the baby croc but there was such a long line of children that we just stayed our of the line. Don't worry. They rubber banded the mouth shut.
Oh yeah…and we survived the CAGE OF DEATH!!! We climbed into a plexiglass cage and were lowered via a crane into the same water enclosure as the crocs! It was quite a rush.
We were first dropped into the cage of Houdini and Bess. They were a breeding couple. We splashed around and made noise but they didn’t even bother to turn their heads. (First is Houdini then Bess)
We then went into Choppers cage. He was lying in the water with his eyes and tip of his nose above the surface. We splashed around and made a bunch of noise but we were only able to get him to sink 2 inches until his eyes and nose went under water.
Last, we went to Denzel’s cage. Again he just laid there. I learned a very valuable lesson. If I even get thrown into a crocs gage. Don’t panic. They really don’t care and won’t even notice you.
We brought a waterproof camera with us into the cage and got pictures. The staff at the croc cove also took a ton of pictures and even took video. It was $45 for 1 picture or $99 for a DVD of all the pictures and video footage. So we bought the DVD and decided that we would play it at our reception!
Here is the movie.
We were able to go to a shower and rinse off the croc water at the Crocasaurus Cove before we got dressed. Since we had checked out at the hostel we no longer had a place to shower. We then went to the mall area and found a bakery. We tried chocolate chip hot crossed buns. I got a slice of pizza and Matt got a giant bacon and cheese loaded loaf of bread. For dessert we bought a chocolate mud scone. We had never had a scone before. Guess what? It was scrumptious!
We went back to the kitchen/ lounge area of our hostel and ate the food and watched the storm roll in. We then went souvenir shopping in all of the rain! After shopping, we went back the hostel’s kitchen lounge area and caught up some on our blog entries. Again the internet was pretty bad so we could only post a few pictures. When I get back to Perth I will upload all of the pictures. We left Darwin around 10:30 on a shuttle to the airport so we could catch our redeye flight to Sydney at 1:45 am. Once on the plane we both fell asleep very quickly.
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