he was doing maintenance on the crocodile pen when the saltie tried to make a meal of him
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Last year a 3.5m saltie snatched a dog at a creek that runs into popular Kewarra Beach, just north of Cairns.
After hearing tapping on the door to their room, a couple of weary travellers peered through the curtains to be greeted by a 2.5 metre female saltie staring back at them.
I definitely wouldn't do river swimming in, say, northern Australia where the salties are truly evil.
One of the "salties" was trapped on the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula and then flown by helicopter to the east coast.
Its core, containing millions of invaluable photographs, survives and falls to earth over northern Australia, only to be ingested by a huge saltie.
Male salties are such nice guys that they even eat their own young, so mother croc has much work to do in preserving her offspring.
His wife Jane, who is also a police officer, was praised for her quick thinking after driving their boat between her husband and the big saltie and hauling him out of the water.
We'd be getting up close and personal with salties.
There won't be salties up here because of the shallows further down.
They knew there might be the occasional saltie as well as the smaller and more benign freshwater crocodiles, but had ancient knowledge to deal with them.