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ABOUT US
The Nile crocodile is found throughout Africa. Large, lizard shaped reptile with four short legs and long muscular tail. The hide is rough and scaled. Juvenile Nile crocodiles are dark olive to brown with darker crossbands on tail and body. Adults are uniformly dark with darker crossbands on tail. Crocodile found throughout tropical and southern Africa in rivers, freshwater marshes, estuaries, and mangrove swamps.
Family: Crocodylidae
Name: Crocodylus niloticus
Length: 2.5 to 6.0 m
Weight: up to 1000 kg or more.
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Diet Description: up to 70% of the adult diet is fish. Other prey items may include zebras, hippos, porcupines, pangolins, and migrating wildebeest.
Sexual maturity: relates to size. Males are mature at about 3 m, approximately 12 years of age, females at about 2.2 m, approximately 10 years of age).
Incubation: females nest in November and December on sandy shorelines, dry stream beds, or riverbanks. A female can lay 25 to 80 eggs, which she covers with sand, then guards until they hatch 3 months later. When young crocodiles are hatching, either parent may help them out of the egg by rolling it between their tongue and palate. This cracks the shell allowing for an easier escape.
Life span: average about 45 years in the wild, may live up to 100 years in captivity.
Operating hours and entrance fee
We are open 7 days a week, from 09h00 till 16h30, including public holidays with guided tours in either English or Afrikaans. The entrance fees are R60/adults, R50/pensioners and R40/kids (under 12).
On Saturdays and Sundays at 14:00 we feed the crocodiles and at 11:00 on Sundays and Public Holidays we have a venomous snake show, where the brave at heart can even touch a puff adder!
It also makes for a refreshing Birthday Party venue, where you leave with fond memories of these amazing creatures.
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