While exploring the nearby wetlands in his leaky canoe, next to his own lake, Darwin agronomist Robert Wesley-Smith , a source of endless interesting stories , which the local media fail to latch onto , came across a crocodile . As he often goes for a swim in his lake , he decided to alert the Be Croc Wise team to remove the saurian.
The catchers arranged to call on him , but they came the day he was booked to go in for an eye operation , so he left a message and a large arrow pointing towards where the croc had been seen .
However, instead of putting the baited trap, above , in the fenced wetlands , where the croc had been spotted, it was set up in the Wesley-Smith lagoon, Lake Weslee .
Wes , also known as Rural Rebel Rob, alerted three neighbours to the crocodile threat with notices on their gates and called personally on another, who reported a Burdekin Duck had been missing , probably due to the nearby crocodile . Other rural residents should also be warned, said Wes.
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| Crocodile territory - the wetlands . |
Following his eye operation,Wes was told not to go swimming for at least two weeks . With a croc trap in his own olympic pool, he is reluctant to put a toe in the water as the tasty bait might attract a passing crocodile to take up residence in Lake Weslee and munch some of the pet Burdekin Ducks that call it home , demanding food from Wes .
UPDATE : Croc-Wise team moved trap into the wetlands .
