Quote Originally Posted by 3toes View Post
Just watching a wildlife documentary on TV about Fraser Island. I never knew that the salt water crocodile was a resident on the island. Amazing what you can learn when not trying. Before you ask it is a Film Victoria production according to the titles
I dont know how true that is.

My Father was involved with environmental research on the island for many years,from the 60's until the late 70's.

We trapped,caught,observed,and recorded all types of wildlife and were involved with both the Forestry Dept,as it was called in those days,and the Sand Miners,Dilinghams,Australian National University,Queensland Museum,and QIT(now called QUT)Also to some extent the loggers and timber cutters on the island.

There was never any mention of crocodiles,although salties can move around.

But anyway,i stand to be corrected

Interesting as well,there are now wild cats on the island,and many turtles(we used to call them tortoises) have died in recent years in the lakes due to eating Cane Toad tadpoles.Basin Lake has lost most of its turtles due to these introduced pests.It used to have thousands of turtles.
There were also recent pictures taken by wildlife cameras of three Brumbies,on the north part of the island,so they havent been completely eradicated.