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Begin your day at Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures, located between Cairns and Port Douglas, with a unique Australian experience — breakfast with a koala. Relax on the deck overlooking the lagoon as you enjoy a hearty hot breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, hash browns, and toast, accompanied by fruit juice, tea, or coffee.
During breakfast, a wildlife keeper will introduce you to one of the park’s koalas. You’ll have the chance to meet the koala up close, learn fascinating facts, and ask any questions you may have. It’s the perfect way to start your day surrounded by nature and Australia’s most iconic animal.
After breakfast, spend the rest of the day exploring Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures at your leisure. Highlights include the famous crocodile pole-feeding boat cruise, the Crocodile Attack Show, and live snake demonstrations. Along the boardwalks and exhibits, encounter kangaroos, wallabies, emus, lizards, and more.
For those booking optional transfers from Cairns, Northern Beaches, or Port Douglas, the tour operates as a half-day experience of approximately 5 hours in total — making it a convenient choice for travellers with limited time.
Please note: Transfers require a minimum of 2 passengers (adults or children). Single travellers are not eligible to book the transfer option.
Highly recommend breakfast with koalas and feeding the crocodiles
Lovely experience, the breakfast was excellent!
If you choose the no-transfer option, please make your own way to Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures located at Captain Cook Hwy, Wangetti QLD 4877.
Alternatively, you may select an option that includes return transfers from Cairns, Cairns Northern Beaches, or Port Douglas. Please check availability to see the pick-up points.
Check availability to see starting times.
Yes. During the keeper visit, you can gently pat the koala and take photos on your own device. The breakfast interaction does not include holding the koala. Separate scheduled wildlife photo sessions may be available later in the park at an additional cost.
Yes. Your ticket includes park entry, so self-drive guests can continue exploring the wildlife exhibits, presentations and lagoon cruise after breakfast and stay until the park closes at 5pm. If you select return transfers, your time in the park follows the scheduled coach departure.
No. One lagoon cruise is included with your admission, and your cruise time is allocated at Admissions when you arrive. The cruise takes around 20 minutes, making it easy to plan the other wildlife presentations around it.
Yes. The park has wildlife presentations, shaded seating, a playground and baby-change facilities, giving families plenty to see and places to take a break. There are more than 2.5 kilometres of paths and boardwalks, so a stroller can be useful for younger children.
Most of the park is wheelchair accessible and reasonably level, and each lagoon boat can accommodate one wheelchair. The routes to Gondwana Gateway and Cassowary Walk are moderately steep, so assistance may be helpful. A wheelchair can be reserved free of charge before your visit, and strollers can be used across most of the park.
Yes. A vegetarian breakfast option is available. After booking, please contact us with any dietary requirements.
Yes. Free off-street parking is available, including designated spaces for mobility-impaired visitors and spaces for caravans and motorhomes. The park entrance is just off the Captain Cook Highway at Wangetti.
Excellent all round from the very beginning with the warm welcome from the lovely English lady at the entrance. Breakfast was lovely with very friendly staff. Reneé was very funny and informative at the same time as were are your team as well at the croc shows and boat tour. All in all a brilliant experience, well worth the money and will do it again when visiting Cairns next time. Regards Bruno Quirin
I was very happy with our experience. The staff were very friendly and helpful. All the exhibits were well maintained and the trainers handler’s and guides were excellent.
Great fun, staff are all very friendly
the snake show, the crocodile farm and the crocodile cruise were favourites
It was a fabulous time the breakfast was nice and all the information we learnt was fantastic the kids had a ball and we saw lots and lots of crocodiles .
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