Thread: Crazy Woman VS crocodile, Cahills crossing NT.

Watched it on TV - stupid is the word I would use. All that big crocodilli had to do was flick his tail and he would have had her. The yap yap dog wouldn't have even been a mouthfull.

Complacency kills too. Saw a car load of locals swimming at a tidal creek yesterday on the way back into Cairns. Signs everywhere, no idea!
Some years back there was a young girl taken from a storm water /open gutter virtually in a suburb... late night swim in Chinaman creek. She survived.
You only get 1 chance usually

Jc

Many years ago, a race horse was attacked in a creek in the middle of Darwin. I think it was race course creek. Interesting to see the Rangers said the croc population is back to preEuropean times.

A weekly occurrence at Cahills crossing, only a matter of time before someone gets taken , then everyone will jump up and down and want them culled.

They are not something to take lightly , believe me I know, I survived a croc attack. They are the masters of stealth, I almost jumped into its mouth and still never seen it till it bit me.

Cheers Ean

Ean, that's an experience I will happily go through life without.....

That's one plus for Victoria... no bitey lizards!

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

Ean, that's an experience I will happily go through life without.....

That's one plus for Victoria... no bitey lizards!

Not something I want to go thru again , only alive because a friend was brave enough to help. Not a phone call a 8 month pregnant wife likes to receive . She hasn't let me forget it either.

Cheers Ean

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

Not something I want to go thru again , only alive because a friend was brave enough to help. Not a phone call a 8 month pregnant wife likes to receive . She hasn't let me forget it either.

Cheers Ean

Dam Ean that is scary stuff mate! Glad you made it out. That's not something I would wish on anyone.
It's crazy what some people do especially the local fellas, have a mate that grew up in injinoo and he goes spear fishing at the mouth of the Jardine river........
Every evening at Seisia jetty there are over 100 kids jumping off and swimming, have been doing for years but it's only a matter of time till a tragedy. I was fishing there the other arvo and a tiger shark swam through, they all went to one side of the jetty and watched it, 10 seconds later they are all jumping off the end of the jetty again.
Anyway very glad you are still with us Ean.

Originally Posted by squizzyhunter

Dam Ean that is scary stuff mate! Glad you made it out. That's not something I would wish on anyone.
It's crazy what some people do especially the local fellas, have a mate that grew up in injinoo and he goes spear fishing at the mouth of the Jardine river........
Every evening at Seisia jetty there are over 100 kids jumping off and swimming, have been doing for years but it's only a matter of time till a tragedy. I was fishing there the other arvo and a tiger shark swam through, they all went to one side of the jetty and watched it, 10 seconds later they are all jumping off the end of the jetty again.
Anyway very glad you are still with us Ean.

Thanks Squizzyhunter, I'm pretty glad I'm still here too believe me. My attack happened in 1994 and we were 40 miles out to sea, there was a couple of islands about 10 miles away. We were mad keen spearfisherman in those days. It was the end of the prawn season and we were heading back to Darwin and decided to stop and do some spear fishing at 1 of our favourite spots.
Rangers tell me that they think the croc must have been moving to a new area to be where it was. Sadly there seems to be a belief in slot of humans that because someone gets attacked we should automatically start to cull whatever animal it was that attacked a human.

You see things like that story at Cahills crossing, and every year some idiot or idiots up here decide to swim into baited croc traps for a hero pic and I just shake my head and think so called adults should know better. kids atleast have the excuse of being kids.

22 years after my attack and I still have the odd nightmare , not as many as I used to but it's still as clear in my head as if it happened yesterday.

Cheers Ean