South Africa - Dangerous Animal Day
Sunday, February 27th, 2005Sunday turned out to be Dangerous Animal day! With my 2 o’clock Sharks Board dissection on the plate, Sandy suggested we continue the theme, so she took me to a Crocodile farm and reptile museum. It was about 30 minutes out of Durban, near Umlali (pronounced Uhm-shlali). They apparently farm crocodiles, which means they had quite a lot of these fellas, around 50 or so that were 2-3 years old and thus ready to sell out to breeders themselves, and quite a few mature (large) ones that were laying around all over the place. They also had lots of baby crocs, and tons of incubating eggs in different areas.
We started off by walking …
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