Another Fatal Crocodile Attack (Adelaide River)

Couldn't agree more! In the 60/70's the sound of a tinnie coming round the bend meant danger to a croc as there was a good chance there was a shooter in it. Now the sound of a tinnie generally means food.

People do some silly things in croc country. Familiarity breeds contempt and I can't imagine why anyone would not assume there is a croc lurking nearby. They are getting more numerous and larger so it stands to reason that more care is required.

Kind regards

Ross said "All the people who entice crocs to jump to food for tourists should be fed to the crocs"

I cant agree more. This practice establishes a behaviour pattern. Bad for us, therefore bad for crocs
CJ

BTW I enjoy the company of crocs when I'm fishing but have no problem with the culling of problem crocs.

The key sentence in the above clips, is '100 metres from where the jumping crocodiles put on a show' (loosely translated).

I have always felt that teaching crocodiles that you could get a feed from a boat was a bad idea.

If the boat doesn't turn up that day or is late, won't the crocs go looking for it or a substitute?

These animals are not afraid of anything now. When the sound of a gun was heard, back in the 'bad' days the crocs would slip into the river and go away or just hide. They knew what could be happening.

If you have been in Arnhem Land or anywhere for that matter, the increase in crocodile numbers should be cause for concern. We need to introduce culling again.

bill

That bloke basically fed himself to a croc at a boat ramp. I think you are drawing a long bow to suggest croc feeding had anything to do with it. Enter the water up to your waist while there is a croc nearby in any river or billabong and you will end up giving St Peter a belly laugh as you try to plead your case. I don't agree with croc feeding, but using this brain surgeon's plight as a case for culling isn't going to push that barrow too far.

I find it amazing how many locals get taken compared with tourists.

The guy in this was a Darwin resident - my condolences to his family in particular his wife but what was the guy thinking wading into the water.

The croc was obviously stalking the people on the bank and took advantage of one going into the water.

All in all a read shame.

Garry

Bloke was a bloody idiot. Bit like your ridiculous comment wombat..

Thanks for the correction. It only felt like a couple of weeks ago. Feels like a more and more common occurrence.

We had the pleasure of taking the Yellow Waters cruise a few weeks ago from Cooinda. We did the early morning one. Everything was starting to commence their daily routine. Including the crocs.
As the tour boat was making it's slow way along the waterways, a large animal, according to our tour guide and boat skipper, somewhere in the vicinity of 4.5 to 5 meters long was going our way. Certainly an impressive sight swimming slowly along with just a ridge of tail scales breaking the surface as the tail moved slowly back and forth. The eyes and nostrils showing in front. Not one bit concerned by the presence of our thankfully high freeboard boat.
As we wound our way along we came upon a couple of early bird fisher folk. Two guys in what looked like about a 15' tinnie with reasonable height, and another couple in a much smaller and lower boat of 3.5 meters. As we aproached with our escorting croc it slowed further and turned towards the two smaller boats. It stopped about maybe 5 or 6 meters from these boats and just had it's head pointed in their direction. The skipper of our boat was about to call out when it became apparent that the occupants of both craft were aware of the croc. The two guys in the larger boat just went on fishing. The crew in the smaller boat decided discretion was the better part of valor and high tailed it out of there.
The point of all of that? This dangerous animal had absolutely no fear of any of our boats, even the largish tour boat.
How could I be so sure the smaller craft was 3.5 meters? The guy and his wife were camped just down the way in the CP we were in. After that little encounter the wife was not going out in their boat for love nor money. The guy wanted to know if I was interested in going out with him.
I kindly declined.

Cheers
Pop

I can assure you that Scott either fell out of the boat or was grabbed from the boat, I spoke with the police that spent the night looking for him at 6.30am the following morning at BP Jabiru while I was fuelling up.

They said that nobody saw what happened, one minute he was in the back of the boat and the next minute we saw a splash and he was gone.

As for the bloke last night well if you play with fire you will get burnt, the croc that got shot was a one of a kind part albino, hence the name Michael Jackson.

4 deaths in 12 months with a possible 5th death yet to be fully determined, every one of those 4 were self-inflicted including the one that was a school friend and class mate of my son, the people that I feel sorry for are the ones that have to retrieve the bodies of the dead torn up corpses and return them to their loved ones.

Stay safe when visiting up here and take care.

Cheers Steve

Pop2jocem, that behaviour is fairly normal for crocs. We had a 25 foot model cruise around us on the bank at east vernon island, then cruise right over to the ship anchored in the channel, do a couple of laps and then finally get disinterested. They look very much like they are trying to work out how to get the yummy humans out of the tin can. We've also had them swimming around trawlers in the open ocean in the Torres straits. You won't catch me in a car topper zipping around the top end, I've had enough thrills.

Our fishing guide did just that!
My son hooked up a Barra then got snagged up under a log, the guide took hold of his line and hopped out of the boat and followed the line under water up to his neck and untangled the fish which was subsequently landed
There were crocs everywhere and I could not believe what he did, all I can remember thinking is taking a mental note of how to drive his boat and the way back home
Crazy stuff!

Iza - every statistic will show its a myth that dumb southerners and tourists get taken by crocs
- sure a small % does but by far and away its top enders being taken by crocs

its like the myth city folk die on country roads because thier not used to the distances /dirt roads

once again its only a small % of city folk and the vast majority of people dying on country roads are the local folk

What a croc!
Of course there are more locals taken by crocs than Southerner's..........Its a bit like saying there are more coastal dwellers taken by sharks than desert dwellers. LOL
The old reliability of stats again...........

"once again its only a small % of city folk and the vast majority of people dying on country roads are the local folk"
Might have something to do with being the vast majority of people travelling on them too?

Hairy,
I have studied the local versus city stats for years and over time I have come to the conclusion that, more country locals get drunk in their pub than those from the city do in the same pub.

It has cost me a fortune to study this phenomenon and that is without any assistance from the government.

Hahahahaha!!!!!! You've got me LOL