Crocodile Farm
Today we visited Cairns’ Crocodile Farm just up the Trinity Inlet. We went there with a very cool Australian Crocodile Ranger who guided us through the farm. The farm itself is the biggest crocodile farm in the world and many leathers leave that place to be reworked as a handbag for Louis Vuitton, Gucci or the other big players. They keep big old crocs and steel their eggs to breed the little crocs, which grow for 5 years and then… you know, the bag-thing. The meat goes to China and even the blood is being used, as crocodiles are known not to have any deseases like leukemia or major infections and so they do some research on their blood.
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he other day I had some crocodile in a restaurant and the meat was like chicken, but only much tougher. The taste was very faint, but as I understood crocodile meat tastes like the food the croc is being fed (logic, isn’t it?) and most of these reptiles are fed with chicken.
After the farm we went the Trinity Inlet down again back to Cairns’ marina on a 
boat, but unfortunately we were unlucky and couldn’t spot any of these creatures in real life. Some say it is better so. We learnt that formerly, ships refused to use the Trinity Inlet as a lot of crocs hided there and many people died. Today, when a crocodile is spottet there, it’ll be caught and brought to the farm (which is actually a quite nice home for the old crocodiles, big area and calm, but not for the young ones). We enjoyed the slow trip down the river, had tea and watched the ubiquitous mangrove-trees.