Jumping crocs, Adelaide River Darwin

Set off on Sunday to see the amazing jumping crocs on the Adelaide river. I had already booked a tour boat which seemed to sound the best online, they were having a 25th birthday special of $25 per person. When you travel on Arnhem Hwy there is signs galore for more than one tour operator. We were following the icon sign from the internet site that I had seen then a sign said turn left now so we did and ended up at Spectacular Jumping Crocs. When the lady said $35 per person I quizzed her as the internet had said $25 birthday special. She advised that I wad thinking of another operator who was having a birthday special. Damn I had ended up at the wrong tour company. We took this cruise as we didn't have enough time to get to the other cruise. The various operators all seem to depart at the same times, 9am, 11am, 1pm and 3pm. We saw only a couple of crocs over the whole cruise and only small ones, the boat was worn out, it was hot even with the old aircon unit & fans, visibility was poor thru the medium sized windows, I just wasn't feeling it. We were so disappointed as everyone had told us how fantastic it was. We decided to head further down the road to the operator which we had booked originally, as soon as we rocked up the difference was visible, professional operation with gift store, cafe and under cover kids playground. After talking to the owner we decided to take his cruise. It was kind of him to not charge for our kids. As soon as we got on board the boat the difference was smack in the face, aircon was working, it was clean & comfortable the windows were much bigger with fantastic viewing, you really did feel like you could take the whole view in instead of just a slit like the other operator. Our tour guide was so knowledgable and looked like the original crocodile dundee. Ten minutes into the one hour cruise we saw more crocs than the first operator we went on. The crocs were also noticeably bigger. So the conclusion, avoid the not so 'Spectacular Jumping Crocodiles' and head over to 'Adelaide River Queen'. There is NO comparison!