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Michael Warren

Michael Warren

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Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas offers the chance to swim with a saltwater crocodile. Video: Hayley Robinson. Pictures: Sybella Salter.
Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas offers the chance to swim with a saltwater crocodile. Video: Hayley Robinson. Pictures: Sybella Salter.

Awe-inspiring, mesmerising, a rare once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and bucketlist worthy - there are many superlatives you can use to describe how it felt to be lowered into the depths and focused eyeball to eyeball with an ancient water dinosaur.

Floating inches from a saltwater crocodile, separated by only a sheet of clear perspex, directly within its ‘kill zone’ is truly an out of body experience.

It’s here, face to face with the beast that you truly gain an insight and understanding into their size, power, cunning and fearsome reputation as the main apex predator, here, in Far North Queensland.

Being able to spend time, in the water, inside a tube with a Saltie is only possible thanks to the opening, just months ago of the “Swim with the Salties” experience at Wildlife Habitat Port Douglas.

The heart stopping attraction, as it suggests allows those brave enough to be submerged in the water with the Saltie to see these water dinosaurs up close and personal.

The Swim with the Salties experience continues the Habitat’s charter and vision to keep improving its offerings, to be innovative and to provide memorable, remarkable and lasting experiences to all patrons that visit the exciting facility.

In addition, CrocArena is purpose built for amazing Crocodile shows, which accommodates 300 people, there is also an underwater viewing area in which visitors can watch the beasts being fed.

"The Swim with the Salties adventure is truly a super incredible, bucketlist thing to do in this part of the world," Wildlife Habitat spokesperson Sybella Salter told Newsport.

"They're just amazing creatures, Crocodiles are able to sit underwater for up to seven hours - there's a reason they've been around for this long; through this experience you are as close as you're ever going to get and still be alive to tell the tale."

Do yourself a favour and try this incredible experience today.

For more information visit https://www.wildlifehabitat.com.au/crocarena/

 

  

  

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