Holy! The Saltwater Croc.

This is Holy!

He's a salt-water (or estuary) crocodile who now lives at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Order: Crocodylia

Family: Crocodylidae

Subfamily: Crocodylinae

Genus & Species: Crocodylus porosus

For the record, he's 5.5 metres long (nose to tail) which for those non-metric viewers is 18 feet long. If it wasn't for the fact that they like to chew on their prey a bit, he could swallow you whole!

I took this while playing tour-guide to a friend of ours who came over from Alaska in April this year.

See where this picture was taken.

View all photos taken: Wednesday, 26th April 2006, This photo: 1:52pm

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Comments

  • totalisator said:
    This looks a little too close for comfort for me ;-) This is a nice shot of a subject that is, in my experience, very hard to capture well.
  • David de Groot said:
    Thanks. Luckily through the magic of a long zoom, and a very high enclosure, I was in no danger.

    That and it was during the six months that these guys don't feed.
  • Maki_C30D said:
    look at those humps on his back, as if you can almost touch them. great shot!!
  • looby88 said:
    Good one ! his back reminds me of a door mat!!
  • David de Groot said:
    Hehehe I don't know about you Helen, but I don't think I'd be game enough to wipe my feet on his back ;)
  • looby88 said:
    Lol, I will if you will !!
  • Animal233331 said:
    His name is Holy?
  • David de Groot said:
    Sure is - apparently it's the first word most of the keepers said when they saw him, so that's what they called it.