Monday, Aug 26, 2019 at 15:39
Could have been from vetinary use as
well apparently and the serial number was no longer legible so we'll probably never know.
I used to fish off
Cahills Crossing in the early 80's. Wouldn't get me anywhere near the water in
Kakadu (or anywhere else in the Top End) now. Back then, there were only two crocs in the area, they hungout down stream of the crossing. At a certain point in the tide they would enter the water and swim upstream. It was a simple matter of keeping your eyes on them, when they submerged you vacated the crossing until they crawled over the crossing and headed further upstream. Back then anything big enough to bother humans was only still alive because they kept away, otherwise they would have been handbags. We and many others used to fish Island
Billabong in a Canadian canoe. By the late 80's large >2 m crocs were much more plentiful and aggressive with competition for resources driving an expansion of territory. About this time, a bloke I knew was retrieving a snagged lure at the crossing and was killed by a croc in front of his teenage son. When I lived there, there were no known crocs in
Twin Falls,
Jim Jim Falls or
Gunlom Falls and Maguk
Gorge only had freshies.
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