Fake Crocodiles! Or are they Alligators?

Photos of the fake Alligators (or are they Crocodiles?) that we have spotted on our travels around many Miniature Golf courses in the UK and overseas.

While in Las Vegas I spotted a number of fake Crocodiles (or are they Alligators) and realised that this year I’ve seen a few on my travels, including some real ones at the Crocodile Enclosure at Johnsons of Old Hurst, Cambridgeshire.

A BIG scary fake Crocodile at Fort Fun Adventure Golf in Eastbourne

It got me thinking, as I don’t know the difference between a Crocodile and an Alligator, and as an avid quiz fan I really ought to!

A quick search online led me to some information on the ever reliable Wikipedia, which shows that the main differences are:

• Alligators prefer freshwater
• Crocodiles can better tolerate seawater
• But both Alligators and Crocodiles can survive in either
• Alligators are darker in colour than Crocodiles, often nearly black
• Alligators have wider and shorter heads than Crocodiles
• Alligator’s heads are more u-shaped than a Crocodiles v-shaped head
• Alligator’s upper jaws are wider than their lower jaws
• Alligator’s teeth in the lower jaw fit into small depressions in the upper jaw
• Crocodile’s teeth fit together, as the upper and lower jaws are the same width
• Crocodiles have a jagged fringe on the hind legs and feet
• Alligators have webbed toes on their hind feet
• Crocodiles are more aggressive than Alligators

An animatronic Crocodile (v-shaped head) at the MGM Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas

A big fake Alligator (that looks more like a Crocodile) at the Alligator Bar at The Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas

A fake Crocodile (I think) at the Outback Steakhouse at Casino Royale in Las Vegas

I'm now pretty sure that it was a fake Crocodile that almost 'got me' at the Adventure Golf Course at Fort Fun in Eastbourne!

A fake Crocodile tried to take a bite out of me at the Adventure Golf Course at Fort Fun in Eastbourne!

More photos of Alligators, or Crocodiles, spotted on our travels around and on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The Crocodile at Barry Island's Smuggler's Cove Adventure Golf

A close-up of the Barry Island's Smuggler's Cove Adventure Golf Croc

Getting a bit too close to the fake croc

A very unrealistic and unscary looking Crocodile at Great Yarmouth's Pleasure Beach Adventure Golf

A snap of the Crocodile at Lowestoft's East Point Family Golf

Richard, the Croc and Emily

Not a Crocodile or an Alligator, but a Hippo - oddly this was in the water at Bottons Pleasure Beach Gold Mine Adventure Golf in Skegness, there was no sign of any Crocodiles or Alligators there, but the setting looked like there should've been!

Links:

- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

- Crocodile-related blog posts

- Alligator-related blog posts

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Emily wins a Doritos Dip Desperado Challenge at an Asda in Watford!

Prior to visiting the new Dinosaur Safari Adventure Golf Course at the A1 Driving Range in Arkley, Hertfordshire (the 262nd course played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour) we headed to the Asda in Watford to meet up with our Minigolf opponents for the day Jon Angel and Cheryl Joseph.

The reason for meeting place?

A Doritos Dip Desperado Challenge!

Jon's company UrbanCrazy (the Great Britain Minigolf Team Sponsor) creates minigolf courses and props, and also designs and builds all sorts of giant games and features. One of which was the Doritos Dip Desperado Challenge which had been touring Asda branches all over the UK.

The object of the game was to see how many giant Dorito Chips you could get in a jar of the new Doritos Dip, with three out of four Chips in the Dip earning you an Esteban Ortega Dip Desperado t-shirt.

Emily managed the feat and won a t-shirt. I failed to get any Chips in the Dip.

A new photo blog that's NOT about Minigolf, by a fellow Minigolfer!

My Minigolf rival and fellow Great Britain Minigolf Team member Marion 'Double Trouble' Homer recently started a new photo blog called The Daily Clicker Project.

As Marion says in the blog's first post, the project "will challenge and develop my photographic skills and hopefully be of interest to others!".

So far the photographic subjects have been pencils, flowers and a pair of trainers!

Marion is a keen photographer and has been snapping away at Minigolf events for a number of years.

Please do check out The Daily Clicker Project.