shady camp nt

thanks daz will take it very easy

Good advice, Remember packing up at 2.oo in the morning once. Just chucked tents,camp gear and all in the boat and hightailed it outta there. MOZZIES LIKE F1-11,s.
Take plenty deet and flyscreen your camper trailer as much as possible. Residual repellant on the camper trailer canvas and screen.
Better to be over prepared than under prepared.
cheers and hope ya catch a barra.

thanks guys str8 to bunnings in the morning.

i don't remember the mozzies being a problem when we were there, though we were late in the dry season.

My son was there last year and caught quite a few good barra.
Even the crocs think it is a good place to catch a barra : )

Jack

only 27 crocs, must have been a slow night...lol
we lost count how many were there the night we stayed, it was like party lights on the water. hard to believe guys were standing on the barrage fishing in the dark with so many crocs there, even more amazing was the guys who arrived to fish there at night with thier young kids (about 10yrs old). they were throwing rocks at the crocs to chase them off the barrage so they could walk across to the other side, seeing the tide was in meant crocs either side of them whilst they were fishing. i myself was happy to fish from the barrage during the day with the tide out in the river behind me, that meant only crocs infront of me then....lol

MORONS.....That is the only word for these mindless dolts that take these ridiculous risks for a fishat the barrage. Then when is one killed there is an almighty uproar and people start demanding a croc cull. Would be better off culling these idiots, rather than an animal that is only looking after its domain.
Fish the barrage....but do it wisely.
Pity the cops werent there to see some of these people exposing their kids to this dangerous act.
Been here 20 years and the total ignorance shown by many southeners can be astounding. So can the complacency shown by locals who should know better.

Bigfish posted


"the total ignorance shown by many southeners can be astounding"

You do know the vast majority of people taken by crocs are locals dont you?

That wouldn,t surpise me getoutmore...Thats why I also mentioned the complacency of locals.

The southeners are a little luckier as they often swim/wade/bathe at irregular times when visiting. Locals get too complacent and will often go to the same swim hole or get water from the same area day after day. Crocs are as cunning as and can recognise a pattern of behaviour..
Chaop I know lost a few fingers off his hand as for several days he went to the same waterhole and hanging onto the same branch each time would dip his water bucket into the water and fillit. After about the 6th time of doing this a 2 meter croc grabbed his hand and removed a few fingers.
I have been guilty of being a bloody idiot and fishing waist deep in the Magella Ck(kakadu). Wouldnt do it again...lot wiser now (plus heaps of beers made me braver then!!)

Ya just cant be too carefull around any water hole in the top end.
cheers

the first 2 guys fishing there in the dark were locals (we spoke to them before the sun set), they were adament that we were not to come down to the water with torches on if we came back to see how their fishing was going later in the night, as it would scare off the Barra.
the people who arrived around 10 p.m with their kids were a mixture of locals and Southerners. so there was more locals then non locals who were there on the barrage fishing in the dark.

And that mate is the sort of behavior that will get you killed.
Idiotic locals behaving like that can give a visitor a real false sense of safety.

An idiot is an idiot, regardless of where your from.
cheers