I don't know Queensland, but wasn't this Brit at some risk of running into a salty whilst swimming around in the dark?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-34034146

Mad dogs and Englishmen Bill, what do ya do

Hey Bill those things gotta eat too!

George

+1 for Bakes.

It seems certain people just don't realise that the signs and warnings re crocs and snakes and spiders actually apply to THEM.

Talk to the aborigines that live in salt croc territory,
and you will find that they aren't any near as paranoid or concerned about salt crocs
as the media and ignorant media fed white tourists are.

I remember some decent tracks on the beach i was camped on, at the cape, but groups of native aborigines
and Thursday Islander children were still joyfully swimming nearby in knowledge of the recent tracks.

A fellow got taken at the Jardine barge crossing yrs ago,
but one of the local old natives [Jacob] told me he was just a drunk idiot
who kept swimming across the river in the same spot....

Another bad practice, is to place your crab-pots in the same place each time...

all Bad practices, since Crocs are well known to capitalise on people [or animals]
with predictable-repetitive habits in water, or even at the waters edge.


NO different to sharks captilising on the regular fishing trawlers or whaling vessels, offering the predators easy food.

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A property I hunted on in the Cape,..the owner said he had an 18 foot lizard in one of his billabongs earlier in the yr,
but said not to worry much, cause his property had mostly dried out and the reptile had likely moved on.
He said just go about your hunting but use some common sense - - by being a 'little cautious' if I decide to fill
my water container at a larger billabong...

They also have a fatalistic approach to crocs as well mate. When I lived in the NT if I couldn't see a black line on the bottom of a water hole I didn't swim.

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Originally posted by Bakes:
They also have a fatalistic approach to crocs as well mate. When I lived in the NT if I couldn't see a black line on the bottom of a water hole I didn't swim.

+1

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Originally posted by Trax:
Talk to the aborigines that live in salt croc territory,
and you will find that they aren't any near as paranoid or concerned about salt crocs
as the media and ignorant media fed white tourists are.

Well I saw blaise natives the world over, PNG, Africa, Australia.They don't have a great safety record in my opinion . Basically they swim near crocs and get eaten, the white folk avoid the water and don't.

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Originally posted by Karl:

quote:

Originally posted by Trax:
Talk to the aborigines that live in salt croc territory,
and you will find that they aren't any near as paranoid or concerned about salt crocs
as the media and ignorant media fed white tourists are.

Well I saw blaise natives the world over, PNG, Africa, Australia.They don't have a great safety record in my opinion .
Basically they swim near crocs and get eaten, the white folk avoid the water and don't.

So how many blaise aborigines have been reported taken by crocs in Nrth Oz last 5 or 10 yrs?...

Death by croc averages less than 2 per yr, and of that not all are aboriginal victims.
white fisherman and overseas tourists help fill the statistics.

death numbers for each yr in order from 2014-1975:

0,3,1,0,1,3,0,2,2,1,2,6,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,1,3,1,1,0,1,0,0,2,1,0,0,0,1

That’s pretty good going for a country with the highest river densities of saltwater crocodiles in the world,
and an ever increasing active number of human population thats spending time in and around croc waters.


IF you look at OZ shark attack deaths in recent yrs, they outnumber the croc related deaths
and the victims are mostly not aboriginal.
which means we have blaise white europeans carelessly flocking to the ocean despite all the media
attention to shark attacks.

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September 2008:
A 62 year old man disappears from the banks of the Endeavor River (far northern Queensland). He'd been camping there
and checking his crab pots. Left behind were the broken rope from the pot, a video camera on the ground and a big crocodile slide mark.

actively camped in a spot for period of time and regularly checking his crab pot locations.

a person with such repetitive human movement patterns in a place like the Endeavor river, is just asking for trouble...

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February 2009: After following his dog into the water, a five year old boy is taken by a large saltwater crocodile in the Daintree River
(far north Queensland), in front of his brother.

any five yr old with careless parents could end up the same way,
such irresponsibility is not exclusive to aborigines.

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Originally posted by Bakes:
They also have a fatalistic approach to crocs as well mate....

Bakes,
aborigines are much more worried about becoming another mysterious indigenous death in police custody
than they are about being hit by a croc.
...

Never go alone.

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aborigines are much more worried about becoming another mysterious indigenous death in police custody
than they are about being hit by a croc.

Well they shouldn't get lock up then Trax (tic)

quote:

Originally posted by Trax:
Talk to the aborigines that live in salt croc territory,
and you will find that they aren't any near as paranoid or concerned about salt crocs
as the media and ignorant media fed white tourists are.

I remember some decent tracks on the beach i was camped on, at the cape, but groups of native aborigines
and Thursday Islander children were still joyfully swimming nearby in knowledge of the recent tracks.

Ignorance is bliss...
The smarter old locals I've met up there have a healthy respect for those lizards and rightly so

Yeah they respect them alright. That's not to say they don't take certain calculated risks with their food gathering activities.

Not much different to me wading waste feed in a swamp to shoot some geese or retrieve a particular bull.