Another light aircraft crash, S.E. of Darwin - 12/01/2025 - 1 dead

[BrendAn]

On 14/01/2025 at 2:30 PM, NT5224 said:

Plenty of reasons to live here Nev.  🤣 

 

Alan 

its warm  and its not victoria

[facthunter]

Constant warmth makes you lazy and inflexible and reliant on air-conditioning.. Darwin is one of the most even max temperature places I know of.. . You can't work hard in hot and humid places and you have to THINK more in cold places.  Nev

[NT5224]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Constant warmth makes you lazy and inflexible and reliant on air-conditioning.. Darwin is one of the most even max temperature places I know of.. . You can't work hard in hot and humid places and you have to THINK more in cold places.  Nev

Nev gotta say I disagree with some of that. 
 

The Top End is warm true, but when the job needs doing,  you do it!  My wife and I are currently in the middle of a tough concreting job, despite heat and humidity.

 

I like to believe we are also capable of rationale thought, although possibly not to the same level of elevated intellect as  you southern intelligentsia 🤣

 

Alan 

[facthunter]

You have to  think about  suitable clothes etc. and maybe a more expensive house. I'm not saying superior intellect. I've spent a lot of time there. .   The fact you can't really Swim there other than pools is a pity. There's a lot more choices of places to go here..  Nev

[Geoff_H]

I have done a lot of work in coastal Thailand.  Loved it.  Outside work. I just hate being cold.  Love heat.  We are all different.  In the gym I will keep my jacket on far into the class.  I liked the Darwin people.  Whe I was flying in there i reported "unfamiliar" was immediately told area without any other aircraft, clear to land.  I even liked those big lizards with teeth. 😃

[facthunter]

They will like you too, and you will taste ok even though you are more educated than their usual meal  (Barramundi), which is a waste of talent.  Bit of a twist and you get stuffed under a submerged log for a muddy Marinade. .  Nev

[BrendAn]

well all i can say is when i moved back to vic after 20 years in wa.  i really really miss wa. 

victoria is overpopulated, over governed and too bloody cold in winter.

[BrendAn]

but the thing i do like in vic is how close everything is when you go for a drive.

 

[Geoff_H]

Unfortunately I don't like driving in Vic.  Too unpredictable.  

[BrendAn]

2 hours ago, facthunter said:

They will like you too, and you will taste ok even though you are more educated than their usual meal  (Barramundi), which is a waste of talent.  Bit of a twist and you get stuffed under a submerged log for a muddy Marinade. .  Nev

It's payback for people saying they taste like chicken.

I'll have a crocodile sandwich and make it snappy.😁

[facthunter]

They taste like $# !t. Very disappointing. They eat dead stuff. Nev

[BrendAn]

1 minute ago, facthunter said:

They taste like $# !t. Very disappointing. They eat dead stuff. Nev

Yes, but you dragged it out of the river and beat it to death before you are it raw. I am sure it would taste better cooked.😁

[facthunter]

No, it was professionally cooked. IF I'd caught it, I would have beaten the $#!t out of it to make sure it was dead..  Things taste like what they eat.  Nev

[Moneybox]

10 minutes ago, facthunter said:

They taste like $# !t. Very disappointing. They eat dead stuff. Nev

 

Most of us eat dead stuff, perhaps we tase like $#!t too....

[Bruce Tuncks]

In Darwin, they paid these people lots  ($90,000 p/a] to go around to people in arrears with their elec bills and explain that is costs you to leave the aircond on when at work.

Wow, in my day, you left the tropics when you retired, but no longer....  I tried to explain this to my mother-in-law, who said that it was all nonsense and how she only ever used the aircon for a few hour per day.

[facthunter]

IF it's rotten, you usually DIE. "Never SMILE at a Crocodile. You can't get  friendly with a Crocodile.........." 

  Regarding cannibalism " Hell,  I  really hate my mother  in Law's Guts."  "Well just put them to one side, eat the rest and don't make a fuss"  I know that's in bad taste.. but educational.

    Now. Back to topic.  We are still near Darwin. A place where Different things are to be seen and experienced.  One of the reasons people go there   The weather there can be challenging and turbulent and the LIGHTNING is spectacular. best viewed from the ground. Not  from a Plane. Nev

Edited Thursday at 06:22 AM by facthunter

[onetrack]

I've worked in bitter cold and worked in Darwin heat, and I know what I prefer - give me the heat any day. But the humidity during the "buildup" in October can definitely send you "troppo". 

However the "big biteys" hiding in the water everywhere in the NT is a bit off-putting.

 

Funny, they didn't bother too many people during WW2, plenty of photos of soldiers swimming in the NT during the War - might have been because they learnt quickly that getting anywhere near those humans saw plenty of .303 bullets coming their way. Used to be a regular sport for a long long time, going out "spotlighting" for crocs with a few .303's. Wasn't anywhere near the numbers, or the number of attacks, back then. We've let them run riot, they have no predators apart from humans.

[ClintonB]

It’s a bit like North Queensland, beautiful beaches and creeks, but can’t swim. What a shame, even fishing would be risky. They show jumping crocs all the time at tourist traps. I doubt the side of my tinny would keep you safe.

thats why I picked the mid north coast. Green all year, no crocs other than on the feet of yuppies. No frost, no scorching 45c summer days and water everywhere. The creek I fish in near home is almost as big as Chafey dam, the rivers are huge. Not the best flying weather all the time like Tamworth, but that was way less than 0.5% of my life at its peak.

[facthunter]

Exactly and why allow them in such numbers?  They swim all the way to Timor . I've seem the salty's from miles up and now their numbers are a nuisance and threat to Life there.. There's no risk of them going extinct and they don't fear us at all. They are in PLAGUE proportions.  They tried to eliminate the Water Buffalo, why not cull the croc's?  Nev

[ClintonB]

Has anyone seen the video of them faking “drowning” in Indonesia to trick humans into swimming out.

[NT5224]

As a Territorian I must admit I find peoples fascination with crocodiles bewildering. Don’t you blokes have Brownsnakes and red back spiders? Do you try to eradicate them from the southern states? 

 

Crocodiles are the same. I have plenty living here on my property ( not marine crocs, granted) and am always pleased to see them. They are a species that has persisted millions of years virtually unchanged and no more deserve persecution by humans than we would deserve  to be eradicated other species  who could. Live and let live.

 

Alan 

 

 

[facthunter]

Getting eaten  by one of the Most primitive creatures on the earth  has a special fascination all of it's own.  Johnson River crocs are not comparable with salty's where any encounter is usually fatal. Their populations are out of balance. You find them further south all the time. They do not MIX with HUMANS. Comparison with spiders and snakes is not really valid. You probably have them as well.  Nev

Edited Thursday at 08:21 AM by facthunter

[BrendAn]

Have all the water buffalo moved back to Asia. Never here anything about them these days.

[spacesailor]

We " East Coasters " have that same problem with " sharks " .

We stopped eating them  !. Now they are eating us .

spacesailor 

[Moneybox]

Crocks used to be scared of us. We spent weeks in the Territory fishing and camping by the streams in the mid-70's and never saw a salty. You'd just hear them hit the water. No doubt we were a little careless with fillets of queenfish hanging from the sides of the 12x12 marquee tent to dry and walking across the creek in waist deep water to get to the other side. There are always more fish to be caught off the other bank.

 

My brother and I made a raft from tying bamboo together with rope so that we could fish the South Alligator River. It fell apart mid-stream so we had to swim to shore while Mum stood on the bank laughing her head off and taking photos.

 

These days there'd be some idiot just up stream hanging a chicken from a string teaching the crocks that we're good for a meal. I think they should be harvested for their skins and meat. (not the people, just the crocks)

 

Each time we visit now a snorkel at Berry Springs is on the agenda 🙃