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Originally posted by chuk
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Try shady camp in the dry season. Over 40 large crocs congregate in the first hundred meters on the fresh water side of the causeway. On the salt water side there was only one and it was a monster of a croc. During the evening I crossed the causeway with my 4wd and I had to go at a slow walk pace because there were around 7 or 8 crocs lying on the causeway. They slowly crawled to the edge to let us through and as we moved past they would crawl back into the middle again. By the time we got half way across, we were half way across the river and surrounded by crocs ahead and behind us on the causeway, 30-40 crocs in the water on our left and the monster croc in the water to the right. The tide was rising and the causeway gets covered with rushing water after low tide. At that point I started praying for the car to not break down. I felt like I was in Jurassic park. Looking down at some of the larger crocs as we drove past, I could see some of them had heads as large as my 4wd doors.. An amazing place and experience I’ll never forget. I’m not sure if it’s like that every year but well worth a visit if you’re ever in the area. And don’t forget the insect repellent. The place swarms with mozzies. And I did manage a couple of ten pound Barra fishing from the rivers edge at night. Another experience in itself as we had to throw rocks at the crocs in the water to keep them from getting too close. I doubt they were worried about the rocks, I think they just backed off whenever they knew we could see them.
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Crocs are cunning, adaptive hunters. I have read of accounts where they exit a river 100’s of metres upstream or down stream, crawl along the top of the bank out of sight to their prey, then charge straight down the bank to grab their prey as they re-enter the river ... in the 80’s I read a few fishermen lost their lives that way.
