Rocks on Crocs

Visited the Crocodile Bank yesterday. It’s a crocodile breeding farm set up by an American zoologist in the 70’s. The kids were thrilled to see hundreds of crocs from all over the world, the most massive being the saltwater crocodile (Jaws III). It looked like a small size dinosaur! Educational signs told visitors not to throw rocks on the crocs (!) to get their attention, and not to stick their hands inside. It did not stop Anna from putting her arm in to point at some frogs. Luckily the crocs were on the other side. They look dead lying in the sand but have the capacity to jump up and gallop across the ground. There was also a snake venom extraction cooperative that provides venom for serum manufacturing. Some snake cooperative guys were displaying the venomous sankes of this area: Cobra, Russell’s Viper, Krait and a saw patterened kind. The snakes were kept in ceramic pots and a smallish snake esacped and approached the unknowing handler. The kids were alarmed but the guy just swept it away.

Alice has been taking a lot of photographs with her own analogue camera but yesterday some plastic parts in the lens broke. It was the end of it.

The past few days have been a traditional beach holiday but tomorrow we are off to Pondicherry, a fomer French colony. The area is also known for the spiritual communities in Auroville (Sri Aurobindo and the Mother). From one bubble to another. But it will be achange in food and the beer is cheap.