1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: It is just after nine point thirty. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 2: Now we know that the worst of the weather well, 3 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 2: hopefully it's passed for the time being at least, but 4 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: we are still in the wet season for a little 5 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: while yet. And I told you a moment ago about 6 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 2: that other low that's sort of floating above us, or 7 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: potentially going to be floating above us. But some focus 8 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 2: is indeed shifting to the tourism season and what all 9 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: this weather could mean as we inch closer to Easter. 10 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 2: So after the flooding we've seen over the last few weeks, 11 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 2: you might have seen some photos online of the car 12 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 2: park at the Adelaide River Queen Jumping Crocodile Cruise and 13 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 2: it's famous jumping crocodle in the car park surrounded by water. 14 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 2: Now joining us on the line is Steve from the 15 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: original Adelaide River Queen Jumping Crocodile Cruise. 16 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 3: Get a Steve morning, Katie. 17 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, good mate, lovely. 18 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: To have you on the show. Now, those photos I 19 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 2: was talking about from about ten days ago, the water 20 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 2: is now drained away. You're currently waiting for all that 21 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 2: water from the catchment near the adelae River township to 22 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 2: come your way, though, aren't you. 23 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just doing this seasonal handball from a lab 24 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 3: river township to the bridge. 25 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's something you're pretty used to by the 26 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 2: sounds of ash. 27 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, it does happen every years, how high it comes up, 28 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 3: and this just looks like it's one of the big ones, 29 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 3: like to Death Nadine and eleven and so forth. 30 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 2: I love that you guys remember the years because it 31 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 2: would stick out in your mind right, because it has 32 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 2: an impact in so many ways. 33 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: I would imagine. 34 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember being one of the first time sade 35 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 3: in eighteen. It's never fun when you walk in there 36 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 3: and it's it's like grand old day start all over again. 37 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 3: But you get a fair bit of warning as it 38 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: comes down the river. 39 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 2: So yeah, so mate, tell me what it's like when 40 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 2: you do sort of arrival, when you you know, when 41 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 2: you realize that that water is going to go up, 42 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 2: and what are you sort of paint a picture for us, 43 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 2: you know, in terms of people listening this morning, just 44 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 2: how high it gets and what it means for you. 45 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 3: Oh, they said a visitors, it does tend to get 46 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 3: up into that gift shop, but we call a good one. 47 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 3: Anything into the coffee shop, which is an four or 48 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 3: five hundred mil and the biggest issue that goes every 49 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 3: year is just so that it's going to touch our piano. 50 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 3: Something you can chuck over your shoulders every year and 51 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:17,679 Speaker 3: just carry out. 52 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: It's truly not so at what level was the you know, 53 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,239 Speaker 2: was the water towards the piano when it was sort 54 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 2: of really flooded ten days ago? 55 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 3: Oh, ten days ago touched the casters on the bottom 56 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 3: of the piano, and since then the piano is gone. 57 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, it's physically we're taking away. Good call, 58 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 3: two strikes on this one. 59 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 2: Very good call now made in terms of like, it's 60 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: a bit of a worry for you guys when it 61 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 2: floods around there. I would imagine, given you know, the 62 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 2: snappy inhabitants of the river, you're not really going to 63 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 2: be wading around in floodwaters, are you. 64 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 3: No, It's never fun. I mean I remember the first 65 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 3: time that that water came through a week ago. We 66 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 3: diald in the surveillance camera and we had a meat 67 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 3: long crocodile just swimming around the entrance eating in the 68 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 3: fifty mili water, just having a great time. Just well, 69 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 3: you guys aren't here, so we'll just go centrasself. 70 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: I guess make that is wild. That's like only in 71 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: the territory kind of stuff. 72 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 3: Is n Yeah, yeah, the stuff all thought it was 73 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 3: a good laugh. 74 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet. 75 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: And you know, like, do you see an increase in 76 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 2: the number of crocodiles after you've had such a huge 77 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 2: wet season. 78 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 3: It usually comes back very good because they're stuck out 79 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 3: on those floodplaines at the moment, and like without the boats, 80 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 3: they don't need us. There's enough but out at the moment. 81 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 3: If you go down the highway during a flood, you 82 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 3: just see wallabies and snakes and anything on that highway 83 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 3: and it's all just getting pushed up, probably by the 84 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 3: water and the crocodiles. So we've managed to do a 85 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 3: few tours since that water's sort of receded, and there's 86 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 3: nothing wrong with the crocodiles out there. They seem pretty hungry, 87 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 3: but they seem to know. You'll see just a flick 88 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 3: of the switch on a tour and they just pack 89 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 3: up and go, hey, here it comes again. 90 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: An easy feed. You reckon? 91 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, tell me in terms of the timing of 92 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 2: the latest round of flood, I mean, it can't be 93 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 2: ideal for you guys, with Easter getting closer and generally 94 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 2: that is the start of went to iss sort of 95 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 2: slowly start to return here to the north, isn't it. 96 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll march with out the nest to go around 97 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 3: and polish everything up, get ready for what Easter brings, 98 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 3: and then the season sort of follows in from a 99 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 3: month within a month of Easter. So just yeah, so 100 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 3: what's a cab on the shed? Yeah? 101 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 2: It is going to be a hard one, isn't it? 102 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 2: Because even today, you know, I'm sort of a little 103 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,679 Speaker 2: bit earlier this morning, I've been looking at that seven 104 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: day tracking map that we get, you know for the 105 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 2: Northern Territory. We'll across Australia, and you know, by the 106 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 2: weekend it's looking as though we could have these other 107 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 2: low hovering above us. You know, no wood from the 108 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 2: bureau yet, whether it's you know, how much rain it 109 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 2: may or not, what may or may not bring. 110 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: But it's been one hell of a wet season, hasn't ash. 111 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 3: You can say that usually we deal with one flood 112 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,799 Speaker 3: maybe a little bit afterwards, but this would be flood 113 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 3: number two and everything's full, so it has the time 114 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 3: to spread out on a catchments or the flood plains 115 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 3: and at the moment there really isn't anything. I mean, 116 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 3: I don't live far from here and it's all full 117 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 3: in Humpty do and rule. Yeah, yes, spoil our balls 118 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 3: aren't full this year. 119 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: I don't that's very true. 120 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 2: Well, I mean, is it going to mean that you 121 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 2: have to modify the way in which you sort of 122 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 2: do things? As you said you usually, you know, around 123 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 2: March you're polishing things up, making sure everything is ready 124 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 2: for that influx of tourists. 125 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: It would mean I'm. 126 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 2: Assuming that you've got to sort of modify the way 127 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 2: in which you do things this year. 128 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, nobody likes reducing a schedule for a season, 129 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 3: but if it comes to it, we'll definitely have to 130 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,359 Speaker 3: look into it, because nobody wants to run out with 131 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 3: next to nothing on a boat and run a tour. 132 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 3: And I mean that's fuel is going to make things 133 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 3: fun this year. Whether they show up or not, I 134 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 3: guess they'll come. It's how many, yeah, and how much 135 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 3: is to share around? I guess? 136 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 2: And I mean you offer such a uniquely Northern Territory experience, 137 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 2: like it's a fantastically good time for people to get 138 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 2: out there. On the water with the original Adelaide River 139 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 2: queen jumping crocodile crews. Like, it's a lot of fun. 140 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 2: But those you know, between the flooding and now the 141 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 2: cost of fuel, Like, how big an impact is that 142 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 2: cost of fuel going to have? 143 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 3: Oh, it's a cost of business. Yeah, that's what makes 144 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 3: it hard is you don't want to do anything with prices. 145 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 3: You want to offer the experience without making it too 146 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 3: expensive for people. Yeah, well we've got boats. One someone 147 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 3: run on petrol, some run on diesel, and there's so 148 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 3: much difference between the two prices at the moment that 149 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 3: they'll run, but our schedule will just reduce, I guess. 150 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 2: And he said, like, have you got much concern at 151 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 2: the moment in terms of those drive to risks? Do 152 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 2: you think that you know, like we just may not 153 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 2: see as many. I mean, we're all hoping that the 154 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 2: petrol prices turn around and turn around fast, but you know, 155 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 2: do you do you have concerns around that? 156 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, well it doesn't seem to sort of down the track, 157 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 3: the prices are all sort of stale if they've either 158 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 3: got fuel or not, and then it's the cost get 159 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 3: passed on with higher cars you've got that imagination. But 160 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 3: there'll be people out there that still want to travel 161 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 3: just to get out of home. Like we don't have 162 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 3: to wind back a few years where everyone was stir 163 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 3: crazy stuck in their houses. But it's just a matter 164 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 3: of how much we share with Queensland to get up 165 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 3: into the territory. 166 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, well we all know the northern territories better than Queensland. 167 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 2: I know because I grew up in Queensland, so definitely, I. 168 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 3: Hope I can pay that too. 169 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: We're just a little bit wilder here, don't you, reckon, 170 00:07:58,600 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: We're a bit more fun. 171 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, well wait till the floods and then 172 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 3: we'll be able to see Marachai's greatest barri moundy fishing 173 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 3: over our new Bridges's be wild. Should have been here 174 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 3: about a week ago when you should have seen those 175 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 3: bridges are absolutely pumping it. We're all the locals hanging 176 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 3: off them. 177 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, every. 178 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 3: Man's dog was out there catching fish off those bridges. 179 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: How good will this is the thing. 180 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 2: It's going to be a whoppingly great you know, fishing time, fishing, 181 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 2: I reckon over the coming weeks and months. 182 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that runoff is going to be a 183 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 3: good one this year for him. 184 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,079 Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. Well, Steve, it is lovely 185 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 2: to talk to you this morning. I really appreciate your time. 186 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 2: Let us know how you go over the coming days, 187 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 2: as you know, as we see what happens. 188 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:41,239 Speaker 1: I suppose with this water. 189 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, no aries, we'll share the share the photos and 190 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 3: how it goes up. The crocodile this year, love it. 191 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: Love it mate. Thank you Steve. Good to talk to 192 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: you this morning. 193 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 3: It take it easy, thank you.