Life-Long Dream #2784
So tonight we are flying to Darwin on the red-eye special. I so desperately need a break from unemployment! Anyway we’d been thinking about Darwin for a while to see Kakadu and Litchfield National Park but the clincher was watching one of those travel shows and seeing a segment on Crocosaurus.
Thus arose life-long dream #2784 (actual number assigned completely arbitrarily). My last life-long dream was seeing Tarsiers in the Philippines which are just about the cutest things in the world and they can reallyjump. Then there was zorbing in Brisbane which was my birthday treat. The best one ever was cage diving with Great White sharks off South Africa, one of the most amazing experiences of my life.
So when I found out you could be submerged in a plexi-glass tube in a pool with a great big crocodile in it, there was never a doubt in my mind. I even wanted to get married in the tube but the boy was a bit of a stick in a mud about that. Even after I said I could wear a white bikini and everything. The photos would have been awesome although I’m not sure any bridesmaids or best men could have also fitted in the tube. You could possibly get a tux onto a croc though but getting him to cough up a ring might be tough.
Croc-diving also completes my diving-with-huge-things-underwater travel monopoly set. The trifecta being diving with the Great White’s, diving in a net full of tuna off Port Lincoln and now crocs. I can’t wait!