In 2008 On the Mc Cather river King Ash bay in the gulf over one week we saw 100's of the bast....d's. On  our last day on the river we were in a creek no more than 15metres across.

What at first I thougth was a tree stump on the bank.

It was in fact a 5mtr plus lizard sun baking ten metres from Lambie & I as we drifted past. I waited till we were safe enough away to start the motor and run! 

Never Will I set foot in our 3.4mtr tinnie in croc waters never ever again.

The danger that I put both of us in, will live with us for all of our lives.

Jim

what a total prat the guy is in the 1st pic here......hopefully he is unmarried and has no children who will suffer by his absolutely idiotic behavior !!!

Oh, and the crocs were here before us and just like the sharks, its their turf. More people die from snake bites - are we going to kill all the snakes??

I have to agree with you Bruce and Bev, it is the Croc's Turf,

I can-not understand the mentality of some people when they totally ignore all the signs of danger, in my book they deserve all they get, and they are the ones who yell "Cull the Croc's" When they get bitten or worse, their family member or friend is taken by a croc.

When we were up in the Northern Territory , we saw people swimming in pools where there were Croc signs as shown in the pictures, there was one twit who hung his towel over the sign, saying.... there, I'm safe now !!! 

 

K.J.

. Heres my 2 bob,s worth. In the early 80,s there was a massive croc cull in the top half of WA croc numbers were drastically reduced .Now the beasts are getting back to the numbers that they were in the 80,s .It does not mean that there are more now than ever before just getting back to the way it used to be .And don't forget out of a clutch of say 100 eggs only 3-5 eggs reach maturity.Crocs self govern, in a river system the largest croc rules if there are to many he will kill or chase away competition .If there where to many crocs in the north the crocs would die out as a species . That my say what do you think. Some people need to be protected from themselves...

-- Edited by cruisaderhilton on Monday 24th of August 2015 08:55:57 AM

Well Bruce,

We serve Fish & Chips + Red Here. (Are you bringing any  ) But first you have to come a catch a few with me. I'm a conservationist , I fillet and release.

Over in good old WA (Windy Allways) up on Niggaloo reef there's no shortage of Noah Arks.

We have had up to 24 swimming under the boat, at any one time. We even catchem on hard bodied lures.

Jim

Jim....fish n chips with red - its cardboard isn't it....c'mon tell me the truth now LOL Washing down chip fat or oil with red wine is not something Im really keen to try...hahaha

Ningaloo Reef (bloody Eastie - Niggaloo !!!) does have a lot of reef sharks and similar shallow water sharks on it, but if you take into account the 100s of 1000s of boaties that visit and fish off that huge length of reef and in its sheltered waters, that's a lot of sharks killed each year. Sharks are very slow growing, live for many years (some longer than humans) and only produce a few pups each year that survive other predators. And worse still Gummy, Grey Nurse and other totally protected sharks (many that have no teeth but use their "gums" to crush shell fish to eat) are also targeted and they are also critically endangered.

Sharks are Apex fish in the oceans. With over fishing of them, the balance of all fish species will be affected.

Off topic for crocs - but they are also Apex animals in their environment....

Oh, and Jim, a very serious lecture....sorry mate.....but no red with our fish and chips next year    

Jim - only the expensive $4 bottled stuff from Auldi, huh ??