Crocodiles!

A bit more about our B and B hosts at the Lillybank. There was another couple, Mark and Helen, from Montreal also staying at the Lillybank, and they agreed with us that the Lillybank and its hosts weren’t quite what they had anticipated. Our room was pleasant but in need of a few repairs. The hosts, Pat and Mike, who were just back from a month in Turkey seemed not to have fully recovered from jet lag and everything they did took eons to accomplish. The four of us got the giggles at one breakfast when Mike delivered my breakfast: hard cold toast and two sunny side up eggs with yolks completely hardened. Montreal Mark looked at my plate and asked incredulously, “Is that what you ordered??” We all almost started snorting. Of course, their breakfasts didn’t come for another 15 minutes! The long awaited banana pancakes were wonderful, however…I know since I begged some of Mark’s.

After breakfast on Sunday, we checked out and started driving north along the coast towards Pt. Douglas, a much smaller resort town on the Coral Sea. About 2/3 of the way there, we stopped in at Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures. It is part tourist attraction and part croc farm. We actually spent much of the day there. We did a boat cruise through their crocodile filled lagoon, took a tour of the croc farm and “petted“ a baby croc, saw crocodile feeding, watched a reptile show (including a blue tongued lizard), and stayed for the famous Crocodile Attack Show. During this show, an experienced keeper got the croc to demonstrate the notorious crocodile death roll--with bait on a rope. The keeper was very careful and even had to retreat to a safe place a couple of times. We were impressed.

the farm

From Hartley’s, we drove the rest of the way to Pt. Douglas to find our place , the Rendezvous Reef, for the next five nights. Felt great to unpack.

On Monday, we chilled!  Yeah~