6th October - Mission Beach and the crocs

Mission beach was our next stop. We stayed there two nights, one at the treehouse palace hostel (sleeping in the car park). It was such a cool mountain retreat with a great view and a swimming pool. We also got to charge up loads of electrical equipment which is somewhat exciting these days.

Then we moved down to the cheaper council site on the beach, though the location was better and cheaper, the neighbours were slightly more weird. These guys were pretty permanent in the site, with couches and tomato plants outside their commodes. Strange but cool, they got to live right next to one of the best beaches around.

After there we went down to Hartley's croc farm. There we saw lots and lots of crocodiles. Baby ones, medium ones and massive near 5m 80 year old ones. Such a cool day, and we have some great films of them jumping out of the water to get some food.

There was a nutcase lady who fed the 50 odd big estuarine crocs and we watched her for a bit. The show she did was fun but she was in a mini cage whilst she did it, but if the crocs really wanted in they could have easily. The freaky bit was afterwards when she was wandering around with just a big plastic bucket and a stick. These things were eyeing her up everywhere she went and no word of a lie she got charged by them as well. 3 we saw went for her, basically she waves the stick at them or pokes it in their mouths to hurt them failing that if the charge is a big one she waits till the last moment then whacks the plastic bucket infront of the jaws and as it is just bigger than the jaw height there is a massive slam of the jaws into nothing. Not something you can get life insurance doing that is for sure. Nuts.

A superb day though and pictures of all sorts.

Laters

Pricey

P.S. The van won't go into 3rd and the windscreen is cracked real bad in two places, lucky it's all covered in the insurance.