The Cairns and Port Douglas areas are known for their adventures. For example, you can take 1 day, 2 day or 4 day white water rafting trips. On the more dangerous side, you can dine with lions as per the description below:
“YOU ARE DARED to dine on the edge of your seat with the King of the Jungle and view this savage feeding frenzy like you’ve never seen before. Exclusive and unique to Cairns Wildlife Safari Reserve.
Upon arrival you are met with a drink at the Hippo Bar, a perfect spot to watch the sunset and Hippos having dinner!
Afterwards guests are escorted behind-the-scenes and into an airlock zone, just 10 metres from the lion enclosure. Time for a quick drink at the Zulu Bar before being seated to watch the feeding frenzy of 16 lions! The sound of the lions charging for their food is amazing!
Enjoy the gourmet BBQ with the roar of the lions, oblivious to their audience. Dessert it served as the lions settle down to a purr and sleep.”http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/08/21/6372_print-version.html
Alas, Lisa and I didn’t do any white water rafting or extreme dining, but I did get to pick out the crocodile used to make a belt. At the Croc and Clothes company, they have live crocodiles that are raised for their meat and hides. It turns out like other animals, smaller crocs are supposed to taste better than the larger ones. Anyway, they use the hides from these smaller crocs for belts, pouches and such. For an extra fee, you are even allowed to wear a pair of Kevlar and plastic pants and walk into the croc pin with a professional where you get to actually pick out which croc you want used.
So there you are with the trained professional that kind of looks like one of the guys from the television show Dirty Jobs that takes pleasure in putting the show’s host in nasty situations. You walk out on a little wooden bridge over the water to a small island, there the handler grabs the baby croc you are interested in and brings it over for your inspection, not without the letting the croc seemingly get partially free from his grasp. A two and a half foot baby croc snapping inches away from you seems a little reckless to me. I choose my belt er..victim from the 3rd presented and backed back out onto the bridge and towards the relative safety of the far side of the gate.
Douglas with his new crocodile belt. Of course, the preceding paragraphs about how you pick your own crocodile out is fiction. But a crocodile was killed and eaten in making this of this belt.
Damn… You had me believing you for the entire thing… Granted I thought it was a little morbid picking out personal baby croc to slaughter for a belt but the part about you being terrified I believed…
I\’ve been told that the best lies or pieces of fiction begin with a leap from the truth and then enough details to make one believe. Hince the devel is in the details…even in fiction.