Macca's Meanderings

Hello from Northern Australia, Our little grandson Noah is doing fine. He has a rather cute smile. Granny Nancy is flying up to Darwin tomorrow - and not half excited about that!  Kristy and Dean send regular photos and videos of Noah like this one below - the night Geelong Cats were playing the Brisbane Lions in an AFL Preliminary Final. Kristy grew up in Geelong - hence the Geelong beanie and scarf.  Recently Garngi Rangers conducted a biosecurity and fisheries boat patrol to the outer islands off Croker Island. Earlier this year we had discovered a large ghost net near McClure Island. The Australian Marine Safety Authority (AMSA) requested us to attach a GPS tracker to it just in case it floated off the reef at McClure Island and became a hazard to marine traffic. This tracker had stopped transmitting. AMSA asked us to confirm that the net was still at McClure and also try to re-start the tracker. The Google Earth image below shows the location of the net. Below, we approac...

Hi During my first week back at Croker Island we had some excitement. A two metre crocodile had found its way into a local resident's house yard. As the water contracts on the floodplain crocodiles fight for the remaining space. This forces some to walk many kilometres over dry country to a creek or the sea. This crocodile almost made it to Mission Bay however some fences got in the way.  All the rangers were at various funerals and unavailable so I assisted Clint from the local council to restrain this crocodile and re-locate it to Mission Bay. Before we covered it's eye it was rather cranky and snappy however the sheet covering its eye's calmed it significantly. Once at the beach, we took the tape off and removed the sheet however it was in no hurry to move, requiring a slap with the sheet to get it moving. It leapt off the buggy tray, across the sand into the water and swam off to find a new patch. While flying out to Croker Island I noticed something a little suspicious...