Macca's Meanderings

 Hi  In northern Australia we live and work around crocodiles - the larger estuarine or salt water crocodile. Actually calling them saltwater crocs is quite misleading as they can happy living in fresh water. We regularly see them on the fresh water floodplain at Croker Island. Hunting crocs was not regulated back in the early days so by the 1970s their numbers were quite low which prompted a ban.  In the NT croc numbers have been managed by a regulated croc egg harvesting program. These collected eggs are then incubated and then the crocs are grown out in croc farms. They are then sold - the meat goes to restaurants and their hides go to the fashion industry.  On Croker Island there has not been any legal egg harvesting so their numbers are increasing. Crocs come in all shapes and sizes. Below is lighter coloured female. And then darker coloured male - males are much larger than females. The same croc - close up head only photo.  They generally move slowly howe...

Hi It has been a while since the last blog post - life gets busy. The dry season in northern Australia is the time to get much of the work done as the wet season makes many areas inaccessible.  Recently, I was looking through some old photos and particularly enjoyed some of a couple fishing/camping trips in 2019 and 2020 to Fraser Island and Double Island Point, both in south east Queensland. Our good friend Kent invited me along. It is a beautiful part of Australia. I have put together a short video of the two trips. I hope you enjoy it. Bless ya all Bryan and Nancy