Crocodile Done Deed

Outback Stockman Rescued From Swamp Trap

There’s survivors – and there’s survivors. David George is a 53-year-old Queenslander, a Cape York stockman whose name has been flashed around the world for the past 24 hours. He lived to tell the tale of spending a week up a tree in a remote crocodile-infested swamp after falling from his galloping horse in rugged bushland.

To read an interview with this remarkable Outback character, go to
ABC’s The World Today. For further details, go to Peter Michael’s report at Herald Sun and see how the stockman scratched a farewell message on the lid of a tobacco tin.

"Every night I was stalked by two crocs, who would sit at the bottom of the tree staring up at me," Mr George, the co-manager at Silver Plains cattle station, told the Herald Sun. "All I could see was two sets of red eyes below me, and all night I had to listen to a big bull croc bellowing a bit further out. I'd yell out at them, 'I'm not falling out of this tree for you bastards’.”

To watch an exclusive video segment, go to Reuters.