Rock the Croc!! -
PERSONAL CROC FEEDING
Billabong Sanctuary now offers thrill-seeking visitors the most awesome experience imaginable: the chance to personally feed one of our mighty estuarine crocs!
This is a rare opportunity for you to come face to face with one of the most powerful predators on earth.
Here’s how it will work:
First we give you a crash course in croc feeding: a thorough orientation briefing by our Rangers. Then they strap you into a safety harness (lightweight and comfortable) and step out with you onto the special reinforced platform at the edge of Nipper’s pond. You’ll be less than 2 metres above the water; somewhere below you lies a hungry 3½ metre crocodile.
You dangle a chunk of meat, tethered to a bamboo pole, high over the water. At first nothing happens. The surface of the lagoon is disturbed by only a few ripples.
Tension mounts.
Then suddenly the huge reptile surges up out of the water. With a resounding clap the powerful jaws slam shut and he crashes back into the water with his meal.
You’ll be left shaking with a surge of adrenalin like nothing you’ve ever felt before: You’ve just fed a fully grown crocodile, standing within metres of jaws that snap shut with a tonne of force, powerful enough to crush a beast the size of a water buffalo. Doesn’t get much more exciting than that!
The strength behind that leap out of the water is phenomenal—a 450 kg beast with half of his body length out of the water, powered by one mighty thrust of its tail.
Nipper is one of our larger estuarine crocodiles; he’s been with us for about 15 years, and has been training to take food at his platform for the past several weeks.
Even though he is cold-blooded, Ranger Vince reckons he’ll welcome a feed pretty much any day throughout the year. His new enclosure gets lots of sunshine, and you can see him soaking it up on the bank with his partner Tipper.
The cost is only $99 for a thrill you'll never forget. For an extra $15 we'll take a souvenir presentation photo of your croc-feeding adventure. What a fantastic gift this would be for the person who has everything!
These exclusive feeding encounters will be limited to only 1 per day, and you must be over 12 years of age. If you’d like to be one of the special few to have such a mind-blowing experience, contact us now to make a booking.
The Billabong Sanctuary Wildlife Experience just got a whole lot wilder!
It was like watching the Discovery channel live, it was really a fantastic experience. – Ventakesh, India |
