Damned if you do, damned if you don't........

A recent ABC News story about the alcohol issues faced in a couple of the Aboriginal Community's around Katherine and the positive influence the Baptist Church is having on the people there in changing attitudes and lives.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-26/alcohol-access-in-the-north-tanami/4393304?section=nt

Crocodile Attacks

It's not uncommon to see Croc News stories featuring on the front pages of the NT News and Katherine Times or on ABC here.  They seem to be forever trapping massive saltwater crocs in the rivers around here and relocating them. People in the NT are known to be very Croc Wise when it comes to such matters and it is generally the tourists who seem to get killed.  However in the last month there has been two Aboriginal kids taken here which is incredibly sad and unusual.

Boy feared dead after NT croc attack

Updated Sun Dec 2, 2012 1:26am ABC NEWS

 

Northern Territory Police are searching for a boy who has been taken by a crocodile near the town of Nhulunbuy, about 650 kilometres east of Darwin.

Officers say the 12-year-old boy was attacked while swimming on Saturday with a group of people at Port Bradshaw.
Police say the adults in the group tried to save the boy by spearing the animal, but the crocodile dragged the child out into deeper water.
Officers were at the scene of the attack on Saturday and were helping sea rangers search into the night for the boy and the crocodile.
"This is a tragic circumstance for the child's family and friends and highlights the dangers of swimming in waterways in the Top End," Superintendent Michael White said.
The attack comes little more than two weeks after a seven-year-old girl was killed by a crocodile at Gumarrirnbang outstation in the Top End.
Last month, human remains were found inside a crocodile shot in the area.
It prompted a warning from the NT Government on the threat crocodiles pose to swimmers in the Top End.

Sign on the waters edge when we went fishing.

Brutus from Jumping Crocodiles Boat Tour - Scary stuff!!