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any place less than 2 KM from a creek has a dominant male saltie visiting at least twice a day to mark his territory.

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OK now I get it: you mean 2km from a creek-mouth in the sea!

The thing about crocs, though, is there are no rules. A big croc can turn up just about anyway there's water, sometimes in a turkey-nest dam (ground tank) kilometres from the rearest creek, or hundreds of kilometres upstream in the big freshwater rivers. Even the tiny little spring-fed streams you can step across, in jungles around the edge of the floodplains! Having said that, incidents are few and far between in northern Australia.

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True as I have heard similar tales. BTW there was a diver taken over some commercial pearl beds out to sea a few years back. There was an old Iwatja fella from Wiligi (Reuben Cooper's dad) who could call crocs up. Besides that his sons said he could light 2 fires on the beach and sleep between. Come daybreak there would be a few salties parked nearby. Similar stories all along AL.

For another poster here if you go to Cahill's Crossing on entry to Arnhem Land there are a heap of crocs abt 6-10 foot cruising around (and there are the ones you can't see). Westside under Garig Gunak Barlu NP (Cobourg) the younguns (6 footers or so) sit back abt 20 foot off a tinnie when you're fishing. Talk about fleas on a dog!!

BTW Marrakai, ever seen the cast of "Kris" outside the council chambers at Normanton? Reputedly the original was over 20 foot and taken by a Polish? woman in the 50's.