12 y o girl killed by crocodile while swimmng in crrek

[bluemingidiot]

12-year-old girl killed by crocodile while swimming in Australian creek,

Rednecks and Cajuns in Louisiana and bordering states let their children swim in muddy bayous, creeks, and rivers full of alligators, gars, and water moccasins. When I was 16 years old I was helping my father seine trotline bait in the Neches River. We seined three times in the same area. Each time we caught a large water moccasin which we let go. I believe it was the same one. Each time, the snake seemed angrier. After the third time I told my father I was finished seining for the day. Turned out I was finished seining for life.

I remember in college going farther out into the surf off Padre Island than any one else in the area because the deeper water was cooler.

'Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing. ' (Luke 23:34)

[vickilynn]

These are good reasons for being a Great Lakes kind of girl.

[Maura]

The Great Lakes are known as "the inland seas". Good enough for me.