Darwin: Adelaide River Jumping Crocodile Cruise
Description
Journey down the Arnhem Highway towards Adelaide River, enjoying commentary on the surrounding areas. Board the Spectacular Jumping Crocodile Cruise on the Adelaide River, where your wildlife guide will help you spot crocodiles, showcasing their hunting techniques. This thrilling experience allows you to see these prehistoric creatures up close. The river is also home to an array of birdlife, including magpie geese, wandering whistling ducks, pied herons, and sharp-tailed sandpipers.
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Itinerary
Enjoy superb views across the floodplains. Green season views can often be accompanied by spectacular lightning storms. Watch the interactive displays that offer an insight into the ecological processes that occur in the wetlands.
Cruise on the Adelaide River, home to over 1,600 crocodiles. View these prehistoric creatures up-close as your wildlife guide entices them to leap out of the water for a taste of buffalo meat. Learn about crocodile biology, territorial habits and their value to the eco system and see an amazing array of native birdlife.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Hotel pick-ups commence prior to the tour start time. Please refer to your voucher for your hotel pick-up time or call AAT Kings on 1300 228 546. You will be collected from the hotel you have selected in the down list. If you wish to change your pick-up location, you must call AAT Kings at least 24 hrs prior to travel. If your hotel does not appear on the dropdown list, AAT Kings does not pick-up from your hotel. Please phone AAT Kings to arrange an alternate pick-up time and location.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- During the booking process you will be required to choose your hotel pick-up details. If your hotel does not appear in the drop down list the supplier does not pick-up from your hotel and you will be required to contact the supplier to arrange a suitable alternative
- Guests that require a wheelchair are welcome on our tours providing they are accompanied by an able-bodied companion and do not require special assistance from the supplier to embark and disembark the vehicle. To bard and embark the boat, guests walk down a ramp and will have to make a couple of steps to get on the boat
- If travelling with an infant that requires a stroller, you must contact the supplier at least 72hrs prior to departure to ensure the can be accommodated.
- Tour returns to Darwin approximate at 17:30
Reviews(56)
The bus driver was Wondeful. The excursion was fun The nature reserve beautiful. The jumping crocodiles interesting. A very long trip. I think the river cruise should be longer
Hi Rob, Thanks for your review! We're so glad to hear you had a fun time and enjoyed the nature reserve and the jumping crocodiles. It’s great to know the bus driver made a positive impression too! We hope you had a wonderful experience overall and look forward to having you on another adventure soon! Warm regards, Sonia AAT Kings Team.
Crocodiles were huge. We saw about 4 hungry crocs in their natural habitat. Super cool. Our drive/guide Warren was not good. Unhelpful, very vanilla in his commentary and driving not great. Company should hire passionate safe driver guides, very dissapointing. Enjoyed the bus plus fellow traveller's who were all excited for what is so symbolic to the nt.
Would otherwise rate it a 5 star experience, given the guide/driver is so informative and funny, which made the bus trip to and from the site very interesting. The let down is in the advertised second view point- fogg dam conservatory is not visited- instead a quick stop over at the Howard Spring park to feed a few fish in a pond. When queried with the guide on this itinerary discrepancies, it was advised that the company has recently changed the route but hadn’t updated the marketing materials (including what’s on TripAdvisor). I am not sure if this is an acceptable explanation for a customer bought the experience for its entirety? If only for the jumping croc trip, $155 is at a high end to pay. I provided feedback to AAT king (via online survey), however, never have received any follow up or clarification etc. Please double check the itinerary before you choose this trip.
Crocodile feeding, Whistling Kite feeding, commentary. All excellent. Also enjoyed the Adelaide River Wetlands and Howard Springs. Very comfortable bus trip with informative driver, Gary.
Interesting and informative. A close up view of quite a few crocodiles, male and female. Our tour guides were knowledgeable and shared their enthusiasm for crocodiles.
This was a great tour. The crocodiles were not out in big numbers, but the crew managed to get three of them interested enough to come out to meet us. It was spectacular watching these massive creatures coming up out of the water, and having a go at the meat hanging tantalisingly close to them. The almighty 'clunk' as the jaws of the biggest male slammed shut gave me the shivers actually. I think everybody on the boat enjoyed themselves. The 'skipper' gave us a very good commentary, and the Croc-master offering the grub to the reptiles, gave a virtuoso performance of a Fish Kite's whistle, luring a couple of them to fly in and take tidbits mid-air! Later we stopped at the beautiful nature reserve at Howards Springs, and fed the fish. The tour guide, Roman, was very jovial and well versed in the local history and features. A top day out. I would reccomend highly.
The bus driver(Prem) and tour guide were both very good. The guides on the boat were informative, and answered any questions asked. Was not happy with look out over the flood plains it was dirty & we couldn’t go out side
Where to begin. Michael was absolutely fantastic. Full of information ,personality plus ,just one great guy.The tour was fantastic ,again wonderful hosts, and so exciting to see the crocs.Yes I would totally recommend this tour to anyone. Thank-you
Very interesting afternoon trip. Nice drive to river with commentary by Driver Prem. Then the highlight of the crocodile cruise. The crocs weren't jumping very much and didn't seem that hungry; but they snapped their jaws enough to enable everyone to get some good photos. Nice to hear that the river operation is run by a charity putting profits back into the local community; and to be assured that everything is done in accordance with sound conservation principles.
Aside from a nice bus tour with a good guide, the Jumping Crocs cruise made our day. Three crocodiles out in the river with a 5 meter/750 kg crocodile impressing us with his jumping.
