{"id":4349,"date":"2022-11-28T00:35:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T05:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2022-11-28T00:35:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T05:35:58","slug":"day-25-jumping-crocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/?p=4349","title":{"rendered":"Day 25. Jumping Crocs!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunday, November 27, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had signed up for a bus excursion to see the jumping saltwater crocodiles in the Adelaide River, about an hour\u2019s drive from Darwin. We were on the bus by 7:45am, and the commentary from our tour guide\/bus driver was very interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once we were settled in our seats on the pontoon boat, our captain explained that he is required by law to instruct us on the use of the bright orange PFDs that were stored over our heads. But, he noted, with a River teaming with hundreds of salt water crocodiles, we really did not want to be in the water, with or without a life preserver. After our little cruise, we returned to our ship and cast off around 12:30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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spectacular jumping crocs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We were on the larger boat, on the left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hundreds of crocs would surely rush \u201cto our aid\u201d if we fell in the water!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Smallish croc jumping for meat on the end of a long stick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This big mama had no front legs, but she managed very well without them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stormy weather ahead as we pulled out of Darwin harbor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sunday sunset at sea!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday, November 27, 2022 We had signed up for a bus excursion to see the jumping saltwater crocodiles in the Adelaide River, about an hour\u2019s drive from Darwin. We were on the bus by 7:45am, and the commentary from our tour guide\/bus driver was very interesting. Once we were settled in our seats on the … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","explorer-thumbnail-icon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5p6Ax-189","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}