Adelaide River Croc Cruise (on-route to Kakadu)

Someone recommended this to us the morning we left Darwin so we stopped on the way to Kakadu to check it out.  This cruise was on a small flat bottom boat (which is good because it can’t tip over when everyone runs to the side where the croc is!) with about 30 people onboard.  Over an hour and a half Morgan the boat driver introduces you to a number of crocs who live in this stretch of the river, some little ones and some very big ones!  Brutus is the largest at 5m long, he is estimated to be between 80 and 100 years old and doesn’t have many sharp teeth left; he also lost a leg some years back in a scuffle with a bull shark at the river mouth!  Morgan hangs some heat on a rod and the crocs jump up and try to get it, he gives to them after a few jumps but one dude, Rocket, only jumps once then swims off and sulks, cute!.  It was a strange feeling getting that close to the crocs but also an eye opener to their speed and stealth before going into the Kakadu.  Leon got to have a turn driving the boat!

The big old Brutus swimming towards the boat!

The Dominator