1/302018: Outback wrangler Matt Wright with his pet crocodile Tripod who is estimated to be around 80 years old.
Greatest croc pictures of the decade
We love our crocs almost as much as we love beer, double pluggers, and sweaty bum cracks. From the thousands of pictures of crocs we’ve collected over the last decade, this is our photographic ode to the big lizard (and Pauline Hanson).
2/302017: Amelia Cross, 6, gets cozy with a saltwater crocodile before he is moved into a new pen at Crocodylus Park. Picture: Elise Derwin
3/302017: Saltwater crocodile Dominator leaps for his food on jumping croc tour on the Adelaide River Picture: Hayley Sorensen
4/302016: A woman attracts the attention of an almost 4m saltwater crocodile when she approached the edge of Cahills Crossing along with her puppy named Meatball. She then slapped her thong to scare away the beast and the threw a stick which hit the croc.
5/302016: One of the first Crocodylus Park crocodile hatchlings of the season.
6/30Crocodylus Park have their first baby crocodile hatchlings of the season. Picture: Hels Orr
7/302017: A prehistoric monster with a crocodile skull. Actually no it’s Pauline Hanson we think. Picture: Justin Kennedy
8/302017: Amelia Cross, 6, gets cozy with a saltwater crocodile before he is moved into a new pen at Crocodylus Park. Picture: Elise Derwin
9/302012: When the ACT Brumbies camed to visit the Cage of Death at Crocosaurus Cove. Picture: Daniel Hartley-Allen
10/302011: This picture of the famed Brutus made the front page with the headline ‘Yes, it’s real’. It was taken by NT News photographer Katrina Bridgeford in her own time when she was on a jumping croc cruise on the Adelaide River with her sons.
11/30DARWIN croc wrangler who has salt water crocodiles as his as pets in his backyard is about to release a range of bondage gear made from croc skin. Mr West has made paddles, dog collars for people, leads and restraints as part of his Soft Croc range. Model Aleisha Boyd, 21, tests out the gear on Mr West at his home in Howard Springs.
12/302017: Saltwater crocodiles have been hatched at Crocodylus Park. Picture: Elise Derwin
13/302015: Croc Stock and Barra owner Aaron Rodwell with some skulls in progress at his Humpty Doo workshop. Picture: Aaron Burton
14/302015: Sophie Monk gives Fluffy the baby saltwater crocodile a kiss at Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin. Picture: Aaron Burton
15/30Another picture of Brutus, another front page. This time with the headline: Yes, it’s real 2’. Picture: Brad Fleet
16/302017: Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme gets friendly with a crocodile on his visit to Darwin. Picture: Elise Derwin
17/302019: NT News photographer Justin Kennedy got up close and personal with Smaug the 5m saltwater croc. Smaug has been featured in dozens of documentaries and movies in his filming pen. Picture: Justin Kennedy
18/302016; Crocodile wrangler Alex Williams sets his crocs off in the croc racing at the Berry Springs Tavern Melbourne Cup function. Picture: Michael Franchi
19/302014: The crocodile that killed William Scott sits in the court room at the start of the inquest into his death. Picture: Ivan Rachman
20/302015: Doctor James Valentine cuts open the crocodile during the dissection by National Science Week at Charles Darwin University. Picture: Ivan Rachman
21/302015: Australian Federal Police investigated this 4.62m saltwater crocodile that has been found beheaded under the West Alligator bridge on the Arnhem Highway in Kakadu. Picture: Michael Franchi
22/302014: Crocodylus Park have their first baby crocodile hatchlings of the season. Picture: Elise Derwin
23/302014: Charlotte Marie Dos Santos-McNeven, 3, helps a baby crocodile crack out of its egg. Picture: Elise Derwin.
24/302019: Could a giant kitsch fibreglass crocodile be the answer to Darwin’s tourist woes? Sherry Cullen reckons yes. *This may not be a real crocodile
25/302019: Stills from a video of Nicholas Milyari Fitzpatrick catching a freshwater crocodile out of a remote creek. Pictures: Nicholas Milyari Fitzpatrick
26/302014: A 1.5m saltwater crocodile jumping for a feed on Adelaide River. Picture: Supplied
27/302013: Then London Mayor now British Prime Minister Boris Johnson with George the royal baby crocodile at Darwin Airport with then NT Chief Minister and now probably game show host Adam Giles. Picture: Elise Derwin
28/302011: Elvis, the 5m NT saltwater crocodile, stands guard over the lawn mower that he grabbed and pulled into his pool at the Australian Reptile Park, Somersby on NSW Central Coast.
29/302012: Harry the psychic croc picks the winner of Kevin Rudd versus Julia Gillard leadership spill at Crocosaurus Cove. Picture: Katrina Bridgeford
30/302009: We know this doesn’t make the timeframe. Some woman by the name of ‘Margi’ planking on a croc at the Darwin Crocodile Farm.
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