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I was up in Croc country a couple of weeks ago. The fellow I was hunting/fishing with was an experienced local so we took plenty of precautions and camped well away/above from river banks. We also had a shotgun at the ready whenever we where pulling fish from the water. Crocs have been protected from hunting for a decade or so now and their numbers have reached dangerous levels in some areas. We sat watching a river bank as the tide went out one afternoon and a few crocs came out to sun themselves, some of them where huge, bigger than a car anyway.
On the way back to town that night we were on a river crossing that is 200m long and halfway across we passed some tourists sitting in deck chairs, thigh deep in the water, enjoying a few beers while they escaped the heat. I was sitting on top of the vehicle with a spotlight and could see several pairs of orange eyes reflecting back at me. There was a big sign warning of crocs right next to where these guys were camping. My mate Dave has a low opinion of tourists so we kept driving and decided to let natural selection take it's course. Warning people like that more than once just let's stupidity breed on the planet.
I was up in Croc country a couple of weeks ago. The fellow I was hunting/fishing with was an experienced local so we took plenty of precautions and camped well away/above from river banks. We also had a shotgun at the ready whenever we where pulling fish from the water. Crocs have been protected from hunting for a decade or so now and their numbers have reached dangerous levels in some areas. We sat watching a river bank as the tide went out one afternoon and a few crocs came out to sun themselves, some of them where huge, bigger than a car anyway.
On the way back to town that night we were on a river crossing that is 200m long and halfway across we passed some tourists sitting in deck chairs, thigh deep in the water, enjoying a few beers while they escaped the heat. I was sitting on top of the vehicle with a spotlight and could see several pairs of orange eyes reflecting back at me. There was a big sign warning of crocs right next to where these guys were camping. My mate Dave has a low opinion of tourists so we kept driving and decided to let natural selection take it's course. Warning people like that more than once just let's stupidity breed on the planet.
