Living Alongside the Crocodile

Everything in this book reduces to a single, learnable discipline. So here it is, gathered into one place before you close the cover.

The crocodile is ancient, magnificent, and genuinely dangerous. It hunts by ambush, it hides in almost no water at all, and you will not see it coming. You won’t. In the Wet, floodwater carries it across the whole landscape, into creeks and crossings and low ground that were dry a month before, so that no familiar swimming hole can be trusted from one season to the next. From the Top End to the Sundarbans to the rivers of New Guinea, nobody will promise you that any natural water is empty, because it never reliably is.