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| Estuarine Crocodile (also known as Saltwater Crocodile) Daintree River, Queensland, Australia August 2007 |
Some old photos from a cruise along the Daintree River back in 2007.
We saw some nice birds: Rainbow Bee-eaters, a Striated Heron, Brahminy Kites and Pacific Baza.
I also recall some interesting crustaceans, but crocodiles were the most obvious presences. The cruise captain identified them all as females and we failed to find any big males. The ladies still looked menacing enough to me!
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| Pacific Baza I have already put up one shot of this individual on a post a few years ago. Sorry to be repetitive. |
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| Where the river meets the sea |
6 comments:
Nice Pacific Baza shot, I recall seeing them on the Daintree river in 1995.
As for the crocs, well
"The female of the species is more deadly than the male.."
as Kipling - or whoever - put it !
Superb images.
John.
They are beautiful photos! On our visit to the Daintree we saw Crocodiles also on the banks, but our images were very poor due to a foggy rainy day. These are beautiful and really depict how lovely this area is. I loved photos of the mangroves and the Pacific Baza is fabulous!
I went there in 1994, saw lots of birds but no crocs (I did manage a croc up in Cooktown though). Great part of the world, i'd love to go back to the Daintree one day.
The Pacific Baza is so lovely!
I've been to Kinabatangan River in Borneo once and wished to see some crocs there, but ended up having just a glimpse of splashing water.
The baza looks a bit like our Cuckoo without the hooked bill. Great shots of the crocs Russell - taken fron inside a boat with a fairly long lens I hope?
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