Cycling in Sydney Australia

Where in the world is my bike?

And how bad a photo can I possibly take on my phone? After frigging around with the old ay-ups to get some light on the right part of the sign, I was shaking in my boots with fear of ....clue alert.... crocodiles!!

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Permalink Reply by sit ubu sit on February 16, 2012 at 2:55pm

And boy can they attack - they have up to 68 teeth on the front!

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Permalink Reply by Bob Moore on February 16, 2012 at 2:59pm

http://www.amazingaustralia.com.au/animals/crocodile_attacks.htm

And are the crocs worse than the vehicles in Florida, scroll down to Wildlife,
http://www.floridabicycle.org/fbalibrary/stories/sfodyssey2.html

Yes they do have crocs there, as wel as gators, apparently!

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Permalink Reply by sit ubu sit on February 16, 2012 at 3:15pm

I know from personal experience - I was in Orlando a couple of years ago, and on a bus that did a run down beside the highway to the many hotels and shopping centres etc. The nearest thing I can compare it to is imagining a service road running alongside the M4. The bus driver slows down where there is no stop, in fact there wasn't much other than a couple of big hotels off the other side of the road next to the highway, and a big pond/marsh about 5m away down a bank from our side of the road. Sure enough, in the middle of the pond, where several sets of beady eyes breaking the surface.

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Permalink Reply by John Knight on February 16, 2012 at 10:43pm

My small experience from Florida is that gators are as dopey as hell. I know they kill people, but .....

I was near Orlando - at Titusville (where the spaceshuttles launched) fishing for a few days. We were wading up to thigh deep for redfish and a few of the American guys I saw carried cut down baseball bats for warding off gators. I saw a big one, around 3m or so in a culvert - kids were mucking around with it, throwing stuff at it. It just bobbed about letting sticks and stuff bounce around it.

If it was a 3m NT saltie, those kids would have been gone, and no way possible I would be wading in NT estuaries!

Years ago I fished at Cahills Crossing near Kakadu where a local had his head bitten off just a few months before. Man, my eyes were wiiiide open!

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Permalink Reply by John Knight on February 16, 2012 at 10:52pm

Kylie, are you seeing much critter action on the NT roads?

I'm actually on a flying visit to Darwin myself and saw a big snake on Tiger Brennan Drive early this morning. No crocs, but down around the Fishermans Marina was well known for night time croc crossings in the old days!

You've had a nice dry time of it for cycling. The lack of a wet season has worked in at least one persons favour!

I'm back off to Sydney in the morning. Hope you enjoy the rest of your stay. I like Darwin.