Who wants to go swimming??

Blonde Moment

One of the reasons we don't go swimming in the ocean here in Darwin.

The croc has a sauce bottle in his mounth. I use sauce bottles as floats on my Mud Crab Pots.

85 f1.4 @ 1/45, f4.0, ISO 100

Blonde Moment

The same croc later in the day.

85 f1.4 @ 1/500, f5.6, ISO 100

Blonde Moment

Crab Pots are supposed to be for Crabs!!

50 f1.8 @ 1/250, f4.5, ISO 100

Maestro

Yeah, you never know what you might pull up when crabbin'. I like that second shot. Was that croc sunning itself or was it trying to grab that bird? Do you let those sharks go?

Blonde Moment

The croc was just having a lazy afternoon.

Unfortunately, the shark had drowned by the time I found it.

Maestro

Blonde Moment wrote:

The croc was just having a lazy afternoon.

Unfortunately, the shark had drowned by the time I found it.

Oh, yeah, I forgot they have to keep swimming to circulate the water over the gills.

dbaker1221

cool & interesting thanks

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dave

gus

Crocs need tomato sauce too. I really like that 2nd one mark, great colour. Keep them coming.

Gale

Oh my, thats a bit scary.

System

neat shots-

re 2nd one-

can the crocs catch any of the birds-

(sorry, about all I know is the front end and tail end of a dog)-

ShepsMom

May I ask where do you live? I've never seen croc/gator in the ocean??? They like salt water? WOW. That's amazing. Great shots!!

Blonde Moment

ShepsMom, have alook here

http://www.travelnt.com/en/explore/darwin/

We have two species of Crocs in the north of Australia. The Saltwater Croc as shown in this post. I have seen them swimming 5 miles out in open ocean. They have been recorded to 30 feet in length.

We also have the Fresh Water Croc, or Johnson River Croc. These are generally found inland but are known to be in open water as well. They are smaller than the salties, usually not more than 10 feet in length.

Harryb

Very interesting ste, nice work.

ShepsMom

Blonde Moment wrote:

ShepsMom, have alook here

http://www.travelnt.com/en/explore/darwin/

We have two species of Crocs in the north of Australia. The Saltwater Croc as shown in this post. I have seen them swimming 5 miles out in open ocean. They have been recorded to 30 feet in length.

We also have the Fresh Water Croc, or Johnson River Croc. These are generally found inland but are known to be in open water as well. They are smaller than the salties, usually not more than 10 feet in length.

Thanks for the link. It's awesome. Would love to visit Australia some day.

Blonde Moment

Thanks for the comments.

As I live in a very remote and isolated part of the world, I have added another link to my signature. (That does not mean we do not want for the modern comforts, we actually lack for nothing and our infestructure is very up to date).

This shows a map of Australia, with the Notheren Territory (my home Sate) superimposed over Europe. The NT covers most of Germany and surrounding Countries which would have a combined population probably over 100 million.

Here in the NT we have less than 200,000 people with probably 40% Australian Aboriginal. Crocodile Dundee country is just down the road.