Crocodile Night Spotting Adventure

A rough guide of the Crocodile Night Spotting Adventure:

The Morelet's Crocodile or Crocodylus moreleti grows only to about 8 feet from tip to tip and are shy territorial hunters, eating mostly fish, turtles and other small wildlife. They have been on the endangered list for a long time due to lost of habitat and illegal hunting. This hour and half to two hour Adventure allows us the privilege to see the shy Morelet's Crocodile in their natural habitat in the wild and therefore we cannot guarantee a sighting although our average is quite high.

After dinner, we don our headlamps and arm our cameras in anticipation of our hunt for the endangered Morelet's Crocodile or Crocodylus moreleti. Our Crocodile Night Spotting Adventure starts quite eerie, as we descend into the blackness of the Belize River with our minds beginning to envision all sorts of scary scenarios and automatically your heart starts to beat a little faster... even though you know you and your loved ones will be safe aboard Sea Monkey Adventures' 26 foot by 8 foot catamaran style pontoon boat (M/V CROC'IN). The boat floats high above the water keeping us safe and with the constant rhythm of the engine we're able to get a closer look of these living fossils in their natural habitat and many times these protected Morelet's crocs reward us by allowing us to float right beside them for a long time, unbeknownst of our presence, until we get all the pictures we want and then leave them without disturbance moving on to search for other wildlife and more crocs.

• 🌸 6:30 p.m. Dinner

• 🌸 After dinner, we descend down to the river bringing along, Cameras, paddles, flashlights/headlamps, Life Vests
• 🌸 We slowly start traveling up stream looking for any wildlife... and of course the elusive Morelet's Crocodile hiding in the bushes.
• 🌸 Slow, very slow is the name of the game when spotting for the red eyes of the Crocodiles. So we can get as close to the crocs without disturbing these wild creatures while listening to the sounds of the jungle
• 🌸 Then it's your turn to see if you can spot one for us to see
• 🌸 Start back to our jungle home enjoying the the stars
• 🌸 9:00 to 9:30p.m. we arrive back home and disembark.

What to bring for the Crocodile Night Spotting Adventure:

• 🌼 flash lights or head lamp
• 🌼 Bug Spray
• 🌼 Long sleeve shirts and Long pants
• 🌼 poncho should there be rain
• 🌼 hiking shoes
• 🌼 big serving of your adventure spirit

 

An Excerpt fromSport Diver magazine

Fish shoot from the water, leaping over and sometimes right into the boat--once even smacking our guide in the chest--apparently drawn to the bugs attracted by our lights. Each darting fish scares the crap out of us, causing us to nearly capsize. We scream like little girls then laughed until tears sting our eyes. Finally we flick the lights off and coast in the dark beneath the endless starry sky.

Belize delivered more than we asked when searching for our ideal His-and-Her vacations.  It gave us stories that we'll tell in tandem for years to come.
by: Megan Padilla - Sport Diver Magazine