Day 3 - Nando's, Crocodiles and beers by the pool!
Trip Start
May 09, 2010
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4
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Trip End
Ongoing
Where I stayed
Maun, Botswana
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
http://www.deltarain.com/index.php?page=sitatunga-camp
After setting up camp, we chose to visit the owners crocodile farm. We were guided through with who we figured was his son, the first enclosure he took us to was absolutely jammed packed (literally climbing all over each other) with baby crocs, about 20-30cm long. Next was the 40-50cm long crocs and so on until we reached about 1.5-2m crocs in their enclosure. We were watching them, deadly quiet and still until for whatever reason, one decided to scurry away, making a thunderous noise as they all followed and gave us all a fright watching it! Then he took us to the real crocodiles, fully grown, the oldest being around 75 years old and all extremely LARGE. There were no where near as many as in the other enclosures but they were still relatively crammed into their enclosure. All they had between them and us was a small chicken wire fence- which the boy assured us none had ever escaped!!
We then relaxed by the pool and awaited dinner which was cooked for us by locals (Botswana beef and rice), one of who sang to us Kumbaya as good luck before our trip into the Delta. Some of the group, including Nathan, stayed up drinking at the camp sites bar- one of the boys building up a 540 pula bar tab (about $100AUD). It was a fun night and good to get to know the other campers better.
