Went out again yesterday. Tried 3 different swamps then went back to the swamp we went to last weekend. Saw a bloke in the water up to his chest collecting his geese. When he came out we told him about the 3 meter croc we saw in there . He looked at his mate (who stayed on the bank) and asked him if he knew there were croc's in the swamp. His mate said "Yeah" Should of seen the look on the other blokes face! Then he said (The dry fella) "saw a small one here last week". We said "well mate there's a big bastard in there now"! We continued on and by the time we had returned they had left. We stayed at their spot having a drink and bugger me if I didn't spot the big bloke 40 meters away!

Also nearly lost the trailer and quad when the bloody pin holding the tow ball fell out! Thank god for safety chains

What sort of croc was it?salty or fresh

T'was a saltie.

nasty bugger

It's hard to imagine anyone let alone a local being so, um, carefree.
Admititly I could have been "taken" quite often, but I was getting paid to work, crossed every bit of water over 15" deep with my feet up on a horses neck, and when the nags sank on me I always beat 'em out.

That was wayback when they were about shot out, but there were still too many even then.
And not just 3 metre tiddlers either.

There's a great scene on one of Alan Moon's Top End hunting videos where they are shooting ducks or geese. A downed bird lands in front of them in the water and just as quick a large salty glides in through the water to "retrieve" it.

A mate of mine in Kunnunarra was shooting ducks standing in the water and had a salty cruise straight past him to get a duck which was dead floating in the water not far off.

Guess the salties prefer duck to man-meat!

You want carefree?

The bloody locals here stand in shin deep water flicking lures around on Cahill's crossing while the salties cruise up and down watching intently...

5 there the weekend before including one ginormous bastard. Am told it's been 15 years since someone was taken off the crossing by one. I sure wanna fish the place but it will be off the damn rocks for sure.

CHICKEN