Hartley's Crocodile Adventures
Appearance
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Hartley's Crocodile Adventures | |
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16°39′47″S 145°33′52″E / 16.66306°S 145.56444°E | |
Date opened | 2002 (Current site) |
Location | Captain Cook Highway, Wangetti, Queensland, Australia |
Land area | 10 ha (25 acres) |
Website | www |
Hartley's Crocodile Adventures is a 10-hectare (25-acre) wildlife sanctuary and ecotourism park located between Cairns and Port Douglas at Wangetti in Far North Queensland, Australia. It adjoins the world heritage listed Wet Tropics of Queensland rainforest,[1] through which visitors can take guided or self-guided walks.
Crocodile farm
[edit]The park incorporates a commercial crocodile farm that breeds and raises saltwater crocodiles for their skins and meat.[2]
Animals
[edit]Some of the species which live at the park include:
Reptiles
- Saltwater crocodile
- Freshwater crocodile
- American alligator
- Komodo dragon
- Lace monitor
- Pilbara rock monitor
- Gila monster
- Fiji crested iguana
- Rhinoceros iguana
- Philippine sailfin lizard
- Eastern water dragon
- Central bearded dragon
- Frill-neck lizard
- Veiled chameleon
- Madagascan giant day gecko
- Eastern blue-tongued lizard
- Northern red-throated skink
- Radiated tortoise
- Indian star tortoise
- Carolina box turtle
- Chinese three-striped box turtle
- Krefft's eastern short-neck turtle
- Reticulated python
- Burmese python
- Boa constrictor
- Amethystine python
- Carpet python
- Green tree python
- Western diamondback rattlesnake
- Monocled cobra
- Corn snake
- Desert death adder
- Tiger snake
- Coastal taipan
- Fierce snake
- Red-bellied black snake
Amphibians
Mammals
- Koala
- Bare-nosed wombat
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Antilopine wallaroo
- Swamp wallaby
- Red-legged pademelon
Birds
- Southern cassowary
- Emu
- Barn owl
- Tawny frogmouth
- Laughing kookaburra
- Jabiru
- Nankeen night heron
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Eclectus parrot
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Wet Tropics Management Plan Review Brochure" (PDF). Wet Tropics Management Authority. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ "Crocodile Farm Tours". Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2018.