Billabong Sanctuary’s healthy crocodile egg harvest a relief after delayed breeding season

Steamy scenes of snout rubbing and bubble blowing were late to appear in the crocodile enclosures at Billabong Sanctuary this summer due to a delayed North Queensland wet season.

But with the rain came the long-anticipated courtships that let park staff know that breeding was well underway.

“With the later nesting season, you can attribute that directly to the later wet season here in Townsville,” ranger Alex Mackay said.

“In the past, if it has been an especially dry year, we’ve actually played…