Lions, Tigers and Crocodiles?

Day two we went on our first tour which was to the waterfall and a safari boat ride. The boat ride was in Jamaica's longest fresh water river called the Black River. It's called that because of the sediment that sits on the bottom...the water is actually crystal clear but you'd never know it. There are several crocodiles that live in this river and since they aren't preyed upon, they live a very long time and get very big. Our tour guide would "call" them over close to the boat and he even got one to let him touch him. Wow!



Here's Princess soaking in the sun on the shuttle bus on the way to the boat. Such a diva! :)

This is our first croc we spotted.


Kissing a croc! EWWW!!!!

"I want to hold your hand...come back!"

I played around with the zoom on my camera and captured some good pics of the birds that live on this river.

This man was pulling up his crab and shrimp trap. That's how a lot of the locals in the Black River town make their money...fishing, and tourism.

Beautiful Jamaica landscape...

Croc #2...soaking in the sun...they open their mouths to regulate their body temperatures. Very interesting but I was glad she didn't want to come near the boat!

These trees grow their roots down into the water instead of the soil. They go down into the water about 6-10 inches and then stop. Then they suck up the water to the tree and they end up being massively beautiful creations.

They said this croc is about 80 years old and about 8 foot long. They are huge animals but very lazy!

Good bye crocs....here we come waterfalls!!!