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That is right. My database is still a work in progress of crocodile attacks and incidents but the list has reached and passed the 300 mark. Right! Over 300 attacks and incidents.
Read the list of attacks https://thecrocodilechroniclesaustralia.comcrocodile-attacks-in-australia/
This is quite a bit more than CrocBite.com but I admit some are crocodile incidents rather than actual attacks. You may, of course, ask, “What is the difference?”
See CrocBite.http://www.crocodile-attack.info/
Incidents or attacks? Either way it is an attack or a close call that could have been a devastating attack.
When someone shoots at you and misses, you don’t say it was not an attack and this can be just as close as you want it to get.
I started with the first recorded attacks. I know that during the early years many attacks on aboriginal people went unrecorded. This is not the case now, and so you have to be aware that early on many attacks on the first Australians are not featured in our history books.
But attacks occurred peaking just before the heavy culling for crocodile skins. Numbers were so reduced that blokes like me could go to most of the territory and safely have a swim. It was not that there were no crocodiles. There were crocs. I saw them now and then, but mainly red eyes at night.
But the issue was that:
- Croc numbers were significantly reduced.
2. Crocs were quite shy and disappeared at the approach of man.
There were not too many attacks in that period.
+300 Yes! But to be frank, this is just the beginning!
I am enjoying myself writing about Darwin, N.T. our old DHD at Woods, the new DHS, crocodiles, soldiers, sailors, and how life has been for many of the fellow students and friends I had going back to the sixties.
What a life we had. Free from the deadly crocodile menace. Free to swim in freshwater during the wet season. Free to have a bonfire and BBQ on the beach, to camp there and listen to the breaking waves, and free to travel the bush. I used to sleep on a canvas sheet out at Black Jungle.
Leighton
P.S. The author is a Darwin boy.