Beauty Y and the Beasts ; Raw Passion and Wild Isolation -- The Northern Territory Is the Perfect Backdrop for an Epic Aussie Escape

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NEVER smile at a crocodile, the song advises, rather pointlessly. It does not make any difference whether you smile at a croc or not, or stick your hands up by your ears and wriggle your fingers at one, for that matter. It will still eat you.

And eat you in a rather leisurely way. If a saltwater croc, of which there are 70,000 in the Northern Territory of Australia -- one for every four humans -- manages to snatch you from a beach or riverbank, it will pull you under the water and roll with you, in a deadly waltz, until you drown.

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Beauty Y and the Beasts ; Raw Passion and Wild Isolation -- The Northern Territory Is the Perfect Backdrop for an Epic Aussie Escape

Then it will tuck you under a submerged tree root or rock until you are softer and easier to swallow.

'That's a big croc, that one,' said Kevin, our guide, pointing out an 11-footer sunning itself on the banks of the Bullo River, down which he was piloting us in a dinghy. The biggest crocs ...

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