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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: gutters on May 02, 2012, 10:09:46 PM
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Looks like we have a snapping handbag that has come south for a holiday.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/large-crocodile-seen-near-maryborough/story-e6freoof-1226344123385 (http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/large-crocodile-seen-near-maryborough/story-e6freoof-1226344123385)
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Can't surprise you really..........Theres been sightings all over Qld waterways
I have also heard stories about them on the west coast of Fraser but who knows.
Cheers Nomad :cheers:
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Yeah it makes me wonder about the rumored sightings about 18 months ago in the Bribie Island passage, at the time I dismissed them but maybe they had some merit.
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That thought gives me shivers..............I have paddled surf boards across the passage heaps of times.........have seen plenty of logs floating past.
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Yeah me too, I regularly wade through the shallows around Coochin creek and over at Poverty Creek on Bribie Island chasing Bream and Flathead. Scared myself a few times when you come close to a stingray :o :o Will be paying closer attention to my surrounds now when fishing at my favourite previously thought "safe" fishing area's in the South East.
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There were reports of a croc in Wilson's Creek (now River) at Lismore when I was at boarding school there in the '60's & 70's. We used to swim the creek to get to town (unofficially of course) quite regularly until we heard that rumour. Had to then take the longer way round.
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He was not that small either ,always used to be reports of them in Gladstone they must be there
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Heard this morning they (Marine Parks People???) have traps out to try and catch him. I wonder if they will beable to catch him and show the proof!!
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He's a few months early, there is a scout Jamboree up there in January.
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we're on the kolan river so he/she would've had to go past us to get there, 3.5m is no gecko either >:D
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Heard this morning they (Marine Parks People???) have traps out to try and catch him. I wonder if they will beable to catch him and show the proof!!
I thought the video they showed was of the actual croc.............thats why they had set the traps.
Cheers
Nomad
:cheers:
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I've heard alot of croc stories over the years. Been told they are in the Maroochy River, around Moreton Bay, breeding off Bribie, escaping from croc farms ... If that was the case, more people/dogs would be getting eaten/bitten and they simply aren't. Only the girls stay the same size, the boys all get larger and larger and larger till you have something the size of Sweet Heart (trust me that's *#$^@&*$ Huge).
When I lived in Darwin for awhile, I did see the effects they have on ... well fishing boats really. A mate of a mate took his tinnie out fishing and a croc tried to eat the tinnie ... I saw the holes but didn't see the croc. I was told to always check our dam before just jumping in as crocs will travel during night hours till the sun comes up to change water holes ... I threw a rock in each time I wanted to enter the water as my dog loved the water and I didn't want either of us eaten. Remember in Croc Dundee where the croc gets the sheila by the water bottle and Mick stabs it in the head? We lived less than 5 minutes from there and I never saw a croc in that pool, but I did see many fishermen.
The NT News even reported one in the local pool at Casuarina one day ... no one was allowed to enter the premises till it was removed. It was a blowup one that someone had filled with water and sunk as a lark, but they take these things very seriously up there. The last year I was there (1998) they took over 300 crocs out of the harbour (but keep in mind it's a huge harbour) and it didn't stop people swimming in it ... but the water was horribly murky so I never gave it a try.
Saw more snakes up there than I did crocs.
Kit_e
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That's why we never sighted one when we went to the cape last year. They are all moving to the great south east.
Bert
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It seems like our croc explorer is not fond of all the attention and has disappeared despite a rotting piece of feral pig being on offer.
DERM officers who have been searching for the croc have not seen it or any slide marks like they observed earlier in the week. Hopefully he has headed back north for the winter.
I had a good laugh at the over the top sensationalism from the journalist - " Maryborough on edge as crocodile vanishes in Mary River " and "RESIDENTS of Maryborough remain on alert for the terror that lurks beneath" ;D ;D
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/contrary-crocodile-lost-in-mary/story-e6freoof-1226346296220 (http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/contrary-crocodile-lost-in-mary/story-e6freoof-1226346296220)
Read further on for the story of the NT saltie with a taste for pet dogs...
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Talking of big crocs... The one in Darwin " sweet heart" is small compared to some of the monsters I have seen in the Victoria river in NT.
Mark
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I had a good laugh at the over the top sensationalism from the journalist - " Maryborough on edge as crocodile vanishes in Mary River " and "RESIDENTS of Maryborough remain on alert for the terror that lurks beneath" ;D ;D
yep, makes you laugh. We live beside the Mary River and no, we are not on edge and not on alert for the terror. There use to be crocs here many years back and there are photos about showing them being hunted. There have been lots of stories of sightings each year, non proven. But this one is proven. The river, particularly where he was spotted, is very wide and muddy and it is not that far to the Sandy Straits and Fraser Island. He could be anywhere. Kevin
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Talking of big crocs... The one in Darwin " sweet heart" is small compared to some of the monsters I have seen in the Victoria river in NT.
Mark
Sweetheart was big enough form me, I remember standing next to him at the Museum and Art Gallery up in Darwin and being in awe at how large he was... I hate to come across anything bigger.
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Sweetheart was big enough form me, I remember standing next to him at the Museum and Art Gallery up in Darwin and being in awe at how large he was... I hate to come across anything bigger.
Same here Gutters ... but I'll add anything the size of it's leg!! There is NO WAY I want to meet anything close to or bigger than Sweet Heart.
Kit_e
(or should that be Scardie Kat)
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Gee we were just there last week
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The croc is still in the Mary River, a photographer managed to snap more pics of it on Tuesday...
http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2012/05/10/photographer-snaps-croc/ (http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2012/05/10/photographer-snaps-croc/)
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This does not fill me with great confidence with the kids always in the water at Elliot Heads, He had to go past to get to the Mary river Chomp!!!'
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Had to past a lot of rivers to get there, might be a friendly fellow
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It amuses me that a photographer can find the crocodile but the rangers can’t, pretty normal I would think. ???
After talking to the researchers doing the Qld Gov croc counting a few years ago, they couldn’t even find crocodiles in a water hole I was camped at, even though I could go down the river and see them. And you wonder why I don’t have faith on the so called crocodile numbers that they say are in our northern rivers.
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Looks like the croc has come out of his winter slumber and may even have a friend....
http://www.gympietimes.com.au/news/elusive-river-croc-is-not-alone-gympie/1579478/ (http://www.gympietimes.com.au/news/elusive-river-croc-is-not-alone-gympie/1579478/)
http://m.caboolturenews.com.au/news/mary-river-croc-spotted-rangers-river-system/1578945/ (http://m.caboolturenews.com.au/news/mary-river-croc-spotted-rangers-river-system/1578945/)
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Call in the T U R T L E M A N .................. Live Action
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They're just setting up shop ready for the scout jamboree in January
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