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Katie McGonagle discovers big crocs, bigger rocks and a whole lot of roll on a fam trip to the Northern Territory
BITING BACK N
ature is notoriously unpredictable, so as we queued up to board the small vessel ready to take us out
crocodile spotting on Kakadu National Park’s Yellow Water Billabong, I tried not to get my hopes up. I’ve been on whale-watching cruises and barely seen a fin, and gone looking for bears and come back with pictures of a blurry blob in the distance, so with a far-from-perfect success record of wildlife-watching, I wasn’t overly optimistic about my chances.
A dozen or so crocodile sightings later, that scepticism
was long-gone amid a flurry of excitement. We’d seen baby crocs with jaws wide open to keep themselves cool, wizened monster-sized crocs with battle scars testifying to their testy nature, and sneaky types surfacing for a moment or two then disappearing just as we rushed to get a good view. We weren’t just lucky – with around 10,000 saltwater crocs to
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