Today I tried a few new things: ate some passion fruit, sucked on some cocoa beans straight from the large husk (you don’t eat the bean itself, just the sweet coating it’s in), a new type of nut that I can’t remember the name of and touched a crocodile.
After walking the canopy bridge at Kakum National Park again (why not?) with my Irish and English friends, I wanted to stop at a hotel on the way back that had a restaurant overlooking a lake with crocodiles. I didn’t realize you could get your picture taken with one and again figured, ‘why not?’
That is, until I got within 20 feet of it! One of the female employees guided me toward it and ensured me that it wouldn’t bite me. The way it’s body was turned, though, I kept having visions of it whipping its head around and taking my arm off. So, I took a break and then tried again after Douglas did it.
It wasn’t much, just a finger, but his eyes were on me and his buddy was making his way up the banks so I figured I should call it quits.
Even though I was the one who said I wanted to touch the crocodile, she literally had to drag me at first!
As close as I got on my first attempt.
I touched him! Even though my finger is not actually proving it in this picture, it happened a second later.
He looks like a prop! Still, I am not so sure I would want to get that close. He takes you for dinner and they are saying “What obruni?”
That freaks me out!! ahhhh! And this from the girl who is afraid to touch a tiny fish in a tank!
hahah I know I thought of that, too
Hahaha I had that exact thought when I was poking it