We welcome relevant, respectful comments. Near Penrith, the Warragamba River emerges from its canyon through the Blue Mountains and joins the Nepean. These marks appeared which some regularity throughout the 1980s when several mysterious events took places. The hunt for this crocodile began nearly a decade ago. NT Parks and Wildlife are urging Katherine residents to get in touch if they spot a saltie. Former Northern Star photographer Darcy McFadden didn't take the photo of Hector that was published in the newspaper, but did see the crocodile in person. "In the areas where we found Isisfordia it seems to have been quite common and it's possible it was spread over much of the coast of the inland sea that once existed in central Queensland," Dr Salisbury said. A giant saltwater crocodile weighing more than a tonne has been captured in a remote southern Philippine village following a series of attacks on humans and animals, officials said. Havelock Island, where the attack took place, lies 72 kilometres (45mi) from the Lohabarrack Salt Water Crocodile Sanctuary. It was described as having a snake-like head, long neck, large body, two sets of flippers and an eel-like tail. His archive contains a story about how, in 1912, boatmen in the South Creek area (a tributary of the Hawkesbury in Windsor) saw a creature that looked like a huge crocodile. Look out ladies: The hunks from Sydney Hotshots are back, Boosting road safety awareness with Little Blue Dinosaur, Boundary Road to receive fix up through council partnership, It's the word the Perrottet govt didn't mention, Terms and Conditions - Digital Subscription, Terms and Conditions - Newspaper Subscription. By [1] Each year, hundreds of deadly attacks are attributed to the Nile crocodile in Sub-Saharan Africa. Northern Territory and Northern Queensland. From Lower Portland, the Hawkesbury River continues flowing northwards to the small community of Wisemans Ferry where it is joined by the Macdonald River. Fossils belonging to a 100 million-year-old crocodile called the Isisfordia were discovered in central-western Queensland in the 1990s. 8 August 2010. The last person killed by a crocodile in Australia was 69-year-old Andrew Heard, from Queensland. For one, there's never been a crocodile recorded at this size. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their continuing connection to land and as custodians of stories for millennia. Snake Island, Peat Island, Spectacle Island, Long Island, Dangar Island and Lion Island. Crocodile attacks on humans are common in places where large crocodilians are native and human populations live. Logically thinkin, can all of those people who saw them be supersticious, prejudiced, crazy, hallucinating and the rest? Adam Britton, a zoologist who specializes in crocodiles, wrote in 2010: I've never counted "Krys" because it's just a story there's no evidence at all to back it up, and it just seems so far outside the maximum possible range for this species that I'd need some pretty solid evidence to believe it. He. The land adjacent to the Hawkesbury River was occupied by Aboriginal peoples: the Darkinjung, Darug, Eora, and Kuringgai. Negative Number: 4314. He managed to escape, but the reptile then grabbed his. Hinds, with the assistance of his brother Jack and publican Charles Rumpf, towed the dead crocodile down to the ferry landing, and pulled it up onto the bank. However, northern New South Wales-based environmental consultant Gary Opit also has clippings from a memoir written by a man named Carl Lentz in 1891 who reported seeing a crocodile in the Nerang River. On the weekenda 3.4 metre male saltie was captured near the Northern Territory outback townto again sparkfears for public safety. Mr Opit said he believed the crocodiles did swim from further north. I think its called the eastern frog fish with a big ugly head & a short small body, brown to olive in colour. Negative Number: 4314. SPOTTED: Birdsville residents were shocked to spot this sneaky croc basking on the banks of the Diamantina River yesterday. Crazy. Average adult sizes for male and female C. porosus are 4.65.2 metres (1517 feet) and 3.13.4 metres (10 feet 2 inches11 feet 1 inch), respectively, with outsize males occasionally achieving 6 metres (19 feet 8 inches) or, on rare occasions, even 7 metres (22 feet 11 inches). This article was published more than4 years ago. "There have been photographs of dead and killed crocodiles around the Nerang River and further north, but we don't know if they came down further south," he said. That's why it never appears in any official statistics. ", "That's one nice thing about carousels, they always play the same songs." About 25 years ago I accidentally placed my bare hand on a Red Rock Cod while photographing something underwater at Shark Point, Clovelly. Select from premium Crocodile River of the highest quality. NT Parks and Wildlifes most recent croc capture brings the tally to almost 200 across the Top Endthis year. At Spencer, Mangrove Creek joins the river from the north. With the opening of the railway from Sydney to Windsor in 1864, farm produce could be shipped upriver for onward transportation by train. We used to get another type of fish in Sydney harbour when catching bait - we called them happy moments but I think their correct name is a black spine foot/Siganus fuscescens . Even though the weather has been cold the crocs are still moving about, ranger Burkesaid. A photo of Hector was published in the local newspaper, The Northern Star, but how the crocodile ended up in Lismore and what happened to him has been the subject of much debate ever since. The photograph was snapped by Sydney man Andrew Paice who was on a cruise down Kakadu's. I think this year, on the back of the big wet season, you cant be sure what has moved up. "They can't persist through the winter in a place like Brisbane or the Gold Coast because it gets too cold for them.". A larger 4.7-meter (15.5-foot) croc was trapped three years ago in the same wildlife management zone, but that one was caught in the Katherine River, which is closer to the sea, Burke said. [15][16][17][18], The Hawkesbury River was given its present name by Governor Phillip in June 1789, after Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, who at that time was titled Baron Hawkesbury, after the Cotswolds village of Hawkesbury Upton in England, where the Jenkinsons still live. Are you talking about the dorsal spikes Bob? Details of a fatal attack on a human by a Morelets crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) in Belize. Strange slide marks have appeared along the Hawkesbury Rivers shore the marks of massive creatures who have presumably left the water to rest on the banks. [7] An obelisk was unveiled in 1939 at Brooklyn to commemorate the naming. "We do know that people will take crocodiles as pets and transport them elsewhere in Australia and even around the world and they do get out, or they might grab a juvenile as a pet and when it gets to a certain size and bites them they'll chuck it out in the nearest river or lake. Not that I will find anything but it will be just for the fun. Here its course turns eastwards and the surrounding landscape gradually becomes steeper and more rugged. CREATIVE. There was a guy bitten at Parramatta by one of them and they've been sited as far as Windsor. At the end of the day it makes you think twice about going out fishing in your ten-foot tinny, he said. You normally dont actually see crocs in the river, but this one was proudly parading itself, Mr Whiting said. It's easy! A vehicular cable ferry at the settlement of Wisemans Creek that carries the old, This page was last edited on 29 December 2022, at 05:36. A 20.2-foot (6.17-metre) saltwater crocodile, believed to be the largest ever captured, was trapped in the southern Philippines after a spate of fatal attacks. He is a local Sydney lad running a few businesses so here below are some links to his website. "Death of a Monster." Hmmdon't they have crocodiles in Australia? Fish exceeding 1.6m and 40kg have been taken from these waters. It was claimed that this would reduce the risk of flooding to homes downstream along the Hawkesbury-Nepean river, that is the most at-risk region of Australia to devastating flooding, exacerbated by Global Warming. Whether youre a lifelong resident of D.C. or you just moved here, weve got you covered. "Today what we see is crocodiles restricted to northern Australia and the coast because the inland of Australia doesn't have much or any permanent water, so crocs that used to inhabit parts of the Murray-Darling Basin or the Lake Eyre basin couldn't persist there anymore because the water is so intermittent," Dr Salisbury said. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. Captured: A 1,300-pound crocodile that evaded rangers in Australia for years, For Ovechkin in winter, a deadline sell-off makes sense this spring, Commanders cut Carson Wentz and Bobby McCain, clearing cap space, The NFL deserves every bit of its raging Daniel Snyder headache, an estimated 100,000 saltwater crocodiles. The crocodile is suspected of eating a farmer who went missing in July in the town of Bunawan, and of killing a 12-year-old girl whose head was bitten off two years before. The Hawkesbury River is the main tributary of Broken Bay. A preliminary analysis of worldwide crocodilian attacks. There are thousands and thousands of reports from every place in the world, of strange beings. Joel and Zac came out on Friday and he was relating how aware you have to be of Crocs in NT. Activists do not believe that these bridges will alleviate traffic, citing that a North Richmond and Richmond by-pass is required. In that same year, confrontations between Aboriginal people and settlers broke out. I mentioned briefly in another thread about this creature and thought I'd post up some info I found. Tia, The Warragamba, formed by the joining of the Wollondilly River, the Nattai River, the Kowmung River and Coxs River drains a broad region of New South Wales on the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range. Now the sighting is inexplicable still, but perhaps given the other incidents, it could be a result of public hysteria and mistaken identification. Until the end of the 19th century coastal steamers linked Sackville to Sydney. We care about the protection of your data. Regardless of how lone crocodiles end up in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, experts say crocodile populations never inhabited the regions. The crocodile, a male, was removed to help prevent human interaction in the more populated areas,the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife said in a Facebook post. )</p> [19][20], In May 2017, the New South Wales state government released the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley Flood Risk Management Strategy,[21] that proposed raising the height of Warragamba Dam by an additional 17 metres, using the Climate Change Mitigation Fund. Activists also claim that the raising of the dam wall will give rise to additional developments downstream, which are currently not allowed to build on floodplains with a risk of a one-in-hundred-year flood. Despite this opposition, work on the replacement bridge was completed in May 2020. Another large male saltwater crocodile has been trapped downstream in the Katherine River and another spotted next totown. The previous record holder was "Lolong," who died in 2013 and measured more than 20 feet in length. 14 (4): 391405. We call them Kroki (Dhurug name), but whatever you call them (and Ive heard a few irrepeatable names), they should never be handled with bare hands. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. The footage was captured by 65-year-old Fethi Ada during a family fishing trip on the Hawkesbury River in Australia's eastern state of New South Wales. [23][24], Plans to replace the Windsor Bridge, and direct traffic through the historic Thompson Square caused significant community opposition culminating in the Community Action for Windsor Bridge (CAWB) movement. [30], This article is about the river. It's highly unlikely to be a croc this far south. Hey Deiter, dont know the frog fish and not sure how south Stone fish are found, but Ive been spiked by the Red rock cod and truly thought that I was going to end up in emergency with the pain, I had a fever and was stripped down to my jocks on a July - cold winters day off the artificial reef off Sydney. Hi DoubtingThomas, I'm a fence sitter on this one but I also thought about a large bull shark. Crocodile attacks are not always reported to local authorities, and some reports are difficult to verify. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Crocodiles are only on the top part of Australia, eg. Bream outfits have a tendency to fly out boats as those little graphite outfits could go in a gust of wind. A shark in the Mississippi? I will check near the sea when I am going to Australia. The two people in this photograph are likely standing a few feet behind the crocodile. "Whether there was one as far south as New South Wales, however, that really stretches credibility quite a lot, quite a few of these sightings have turned out to be something like a large monitor lizard. [13][14], The Hawkesbury River was one of the major transportation routes for transporting food from the surrounding area to Sydney during the 1800s. This photograph was actually taken decades earlier and shows a crocodile of undetermined size that appears larger due to forced perspective. At Milsons Passage, the river is joined by Berowra Creek from the south. [1][3][13] Four of them, the Siamese crocodile, broad-snouted caiman, spectacled caiman and yacare caiman, each are suspected to have been the perpetrator of a single fatal attack on a child (smaller and therefore a more likely target than an adult), although for each of these cases the identity of the species is not completely certain.[14][15][16][17]. Jacob and Angel Breytenbach found a 10-foot crocodile in their pool in Moedwil, South Africa, on Friday, and recorded the exciting rescue. The most famous was a four-metre crocodile shot in the Logan River and photographed in 1905. Birdsville ex-pat Karen Brook was travelling through town on a work trip when she snapped a photo of the croc and said she couldn't remeber ever seeing anything other than fish swimming in the river. -Holden Caulfield. Human-Tomistoma interactions in central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. [1] These are the West African crocodile (often considered quite harmless,[4] but has been involved in several attacks, also fatal),[5] American crocodile (only a few documented fatalities),[3][6][7] the Morelet's crocodile (typically considered a relatively non-threatening species, but there have been several fatal attacks),[7][8] Orinoco crocodile (fatalities recorded in the 1930s and earlier when the species was more common, but today it is very rare),[9][10] Cuban crocodile (generally considered aggressive, but only one confirmed fatality),[3][11] black caiman (fatal attacks confirmed in Brazil, but possibly underreported because of its remote range),[3] American alligator (making up an estimated 6% of fatal crocodilian attacks),[2] and false gharial (only a few confirmed fatalities, all involving very large false gharials). Could it be a stray, then? Dr Salisbury said there was also evidence of a species known as mekosuchines living in the Lake Eyre basin in South Australia about five million years ago, and an unknown species living in western New South Wales as recently as a few hundred thousand years ago. Its worth looking up on the internet. Read our Privacy Policy. The Nepean River merges with the Hawkesbury River at an elevation of 1.8 m above sea level. Her boyfriend caught the attack on film; the camera was recovered two days later along with her remains. If true, it lends credence to the admonition that pets arent just for Christmas theyre for life. Itd be great to support this legend with his up and coming fishing brand selling some insane designed tees and custom brag matts, you wont be disappointed.RELEASE OUTFITTERS - https://www.releaseoutfitters.com.au/RELEASE OUTFITTERS - INSTAGRAM @release_outfittersCDS SIGNS - http://cdssigns.com.au/LOCHIE IG - @lochie_cromieFishing Gear both were using the new Shimano Stradic 2500 with 15lb Jbraid on a Zodias rodVideo recored on GoPro Hero 7 Socials - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/spinkingsyd/ Email - spingkingsyd@gmail.com I heard a silly story that for one summer a long time ago there was actually a croc in the Hawkesbury. 7:05pm Apr 5, 2021 Security footage of a boat explosion on Sydney's Hawkesbury River has shown how close a group came to death as four people remain in hospital with severe burns. This was caught in the Hawkesbury river in 1959. Havent found any pictures. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. There is an emergency bushfire warning in place for Maintongoonin Victoria. The croc has been the talk of Birdsville for weeks but residents were only able to get pictures of the reptile today. The post included a photo showing the crocodile tied down on a trailer with duct tape around its jaw. On September 4, 2011, Lolong, a 20.2-foot (6.17-metre) saltwater crocodile believed to be the largest ever captured, was trapped in the southern Philippines after a spate of fatal attacks. Conservation & Society. THE second biggest crocodile ever caught in Australia was hauled in by the Territory's own Outback wrangler Matt Wright. "A tourist spotted it a few weeks ago and it has been the talk of the town and today someone saw it and we all went down to the river and sure enough it was a crocodile," she said. WoahGmbldfedz, you be the strangest weirdest person on this forum other than me, I see. Sideleau, B. We've covered several other examples of "forced perspective" photographs over the years. 13 September 2013. Nine hundred soldiers of an Imperial Japanese Army unit, in an attempt to retreat from the Royal Navy and rejoin a larger battalion of the Japanese infantry, crossed through sixteen kilometres (ten miles) of mangrove swamps that contained saltwater crocodiles. The Hawkesbury river is in NSW, near Sydney. It was estimated to be about 60 years old, but it is the reptiles size that is shocking measuring more than 15 feet long (the average length of a car) and weighing more than 1,300 pounds (which is more than a grand piano), according to the Katherine Times. By Myles Sinnamon - Project Coordinator, State Library of Queensland | 11 July 2013, Crocodile found in the Logan River, 1905. This latest croc is at Donkey Camp and is estimated to be around about fourmetreslong. Because they are further from the camera, they appear smaller in the frame. Leaver, who ran a crocodile removal service across the state for 20 years, said the largest one he ever caught was 4.95m in the late 1980s. The government saidthat each year, rangers remove about 250 problem crocodiles from the area. It just cruised past me as I was pumping water on the back of my block. The southern-most reported sighting of a crocodile was believed to be in Angourie, near Yamba in northern New South Wales, in 1939. From Brisbane Courier, 19 August 1905, p.12, During the crocodile scare some were skeptical. "Hector was about three-and-a-half feet and he was held in a nursery in a glass tank before he escaped," Mr McFadden said. The headwaters of the Hawkesbury River, the Avon River, the Cataract River, and the Cordeaux River, rise only a few kilometres (miles) from the sea, about 80 kilometres (50mi) south of Sydney. The Beast of Bodmin Moor has evaded capture for years and England's tiny compared to Australia. However very common in the Hawkesbury and tributaries are the Bullrout (notesthes robusta) and Fortescue (centropogon australia). Look out ladies: The hunks from Sydney Hotshots are back, Boosting road safety awareness with Little Blue Dinosaur, Boundary Road to receive fix up through council partnership, It's the word the Perrottet govt didn't mention, Terms and Conditions - Digital Subscription, Terms and Conditions - Newspaper Subscription. Around this time, a fifteen metre long-necked reptilian creature was observed as it swam up the river towards the Hawkesbury River Bridge. This photograph does not show a 28-foot-long crocodile that was killed in Australia. In the area around Brooklyn the river is crossed by the major road and rail services that follow the coast north from Sydney. The Hawkesbury River and its associated main tributary, the Nepean River, almost encircle the metropolitan region of Sydney. It's highly unlikely to be a croc this far south. A one-and-a-half metre crocodile was found basking on the banks of the Diamantina River yesterday, thousands of kilometres away from its home on the coast. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "You see this happening all the time and it's by far the most plausible explanation.". Bull sharks have been found a thousand miles up the Mississippi. Weighing up to 600 kg (1,322 lb), the 60-year old crocodile is the biggest ever removed from the Katherine River in the remote Northern Territory. Also, a large croc has been spotted by a local resident in Katherine itself, late last week. Crocodilian.blogspot.com. While we have been unable to find any information regarding this crocodile's specific size, it's very unlikely that it was 28 feet long. Just seems to me, in a country harboring the largest and most deadly aquatic reptile, then such incidents would almost be expected, even in unusual areas. They crave us, like we might crave a pizza, and they act on those impulses. The Australian leg of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series takes place in Hawkesbury. These streams start on the inland-facing slopes of the plateau which forms the escarpment behind Wollongong. The mystery prompted Tweed Heads environmental scientist Bruce Moon to submit a question to Curious North Coast: How far south did crocodiles once live? Hinds, with the assistance of his brother Jack and publican Charles Rumpf, towed the dead crocodile . Ancient cave art along the river depicts these creatures, which they called Mirreeulla (giant water serpent). Many folks probably refer to Red Rock Cods as stonefish, well, they kind of look like part of the reef in their own pretty way. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter 28(1): 911. Rumour had it that nine years earlier, two well-known Brisbane residents were given a crocodile as a Christmas gift, but the contents of the package mysteriously went missing. MASSIVE FLATHEAD. The two captures, the one at Flora on the weekend, and the record croc from Taylors Park boatramp the week before, are from same general region. These include the Palm Beach Ferry service from Palm Beach to Ettalong and Wagstaffe, and the Hawkesbury River Ferries service from Brooklyn to Dangar Island and Little Wobby. In September 2005, Russell Harris, a 37-year-old British engineer, was killed by a large saltwater crocodile while snorkeling off Picnic Beach in Australia. "We caught that one up near Airlie beach [in. The other principal component of the upper Hawkesbury river system, the Grose River, rises in the area of Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Collections; . Photo Courtesy of Bislig City DENR Barangay Pamanlinan is about 11 kilometers away from the city hall of Bislig, a locality in the eastern coast of Mindanao. At Windsor, the river is joined by South Creek, which drains much of the urban runoff in Sydney's western suburbs that does not fall into the Parramatta River catchment. There are minimum physical evidence of those monsters. It has been a cracker year or Bass since the floods and Ive had a few fishos keen to catch these hard fighting river / creek sports fish. PicklesNovember 5, 2021 in Fishing Chat. Healy also recorded an episode from 1924, which was then described by the local edition of the Windsor and Richmond Gazette. a Screaming run on a prawn or piece of squid in the hawkesbury is likely to be a jew. Wildlife officers have killed a 4.2-metre crocodile that attacked a man and ate his dog in Far North Queensland. So far this year, 190 of them as well as two freshwater crocodiles have been captured in theTop End region, according to data released by the government. Reviews indicate that at least half of all attacks by the Nile and saltwater crocodiles are fatal[1] (in Australia, however, only about 25% of saltwater crocodile attacks are fatal). He managed to escape, but the reptile then grabbed his. An alligator trapped a teenage girl in a tree. A "life-size" replica of this 28-foot-long crocodile, nicknamed "Kris," can be seen in the town of Normanton in Queensland: Guinness Book of World Records. Sideleau, B. See more of Pilot Dave on Facebook Yep dorsal spines, the one that got me was alive. Powered by Invision Community, Unexplained-Mysteries.com uses cookies. And, more specifically, did they ever inhabit the rivers of Lismore? Like all ancient legends about monsters, this is just another metaphor for the mother-in-law. We've reached out to the National Library of Australia and the Northern Territory Archives Service and will update this article if more information becomes available. DONT PANIC. Distribution of the 'proper' Stonefish (Synanceiaverrucosa)is roughly south to the NSW/Qld border. A larger 4. . Authorities caught a more than 15-foot crocodile, one of the largest recorded, on July 9 in Australia. Ranger Burke said it is a common belief crocs go off the bite during the colder months. DECKEE PTY LTD Edwardes, Arthur Diedrich, c. 1845-1950, Photograph, PRG 1373/48/71 'Ville du Havre' steel 4 masted barque 3231 tons [steel 4 mast barque, 3231 gross, 2446 net tons, later 3109 gross, 2806 net tons. The male crocodile, measuring around 14.7 feet (4.5 . Val Plumwood learned. Islands in the Hawkesbury River include, in order going downstream are Barr Island, Milson Island, Depending on the size, the crocodiles could have been responsible for the slide marks on the banks too. 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