Wished they had tagged and kept track of cats in the same way - we'd have them more under control now if they did.
When I first moved to Cairns there was some uppity liberal who decided it should be open season on crocs - there's just too many of them he said. With numbers like these we're going to lose tourists to these beasts. Every last one should be shot.
He went on to say that they were dangerous and people feared them.
But when tourists were asked if they feared the crocs most suggested they had come to the far north to see the crocs!!!
Crocodiles have been responsible for something like 42 deaths in the last 200 years (if that stat is wrong I apologise - but that was the last figure I heard - and there was that fellow in Cooktown who was eaten by a croc about a month ago now).
That statistic doesn't exactly make me quiver in my boots. I'm much more scared of crossing the road. Our road toll lin the first quarter of this year was much higher than that - in fact in 2005 I believe the road toll in Australia was over 1600!!!
Adequate signage, correct education, continual tourist enhancement of crocodile inhabited areas and awareness are what is needed - if that means telling people where the crocs are released then so be it - but as suggested - crocs do tend to move!
