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Crocodile Statue - Wyndham

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If you like ‘big’ town entry statements, you will love the giant Crocodile Statue in Wyndham. As you drive into the historic port town, you cannot miss the welcoming smile from the side of the road at the town’s entrance. The twenty metre long and three metre high concrete statue of a saltwater crocodile provides a novel photo opportunity. Visitors are known to climb the large sculpture for some entertaining photos.

The statue was designed using a photograph of a crocodile and computer technology that plotted the crocodile’s shape. It was built with the help of students from Halls Creek Technology of Advanced Further Education (TAFE).

Whilst its size has been over accentuated, it acts as a great deterrent to anyone considering swimming in the crocodile infested waters surrounding Wyndham.

The historic port town of Wyndham was established during the Halls Creek gold rush in 1885. Wyndham is a one hour drive from Kununurra which is a three hour flight from Perth.

Whats close?

accommodation

31.0 kms   Voyages El Questro Wilderness Park
6.3 kms   Digger's Rest Station
0.1 kms   Drovers Memorial
13.9 kms   Prison Tree
14.3 kms   Parry Lagoons Nature Reserve
14.4 kms   Alligator Hole
14.7 kms   Telegraph Hill
15.6 kms   Marglu Billabong
2.4 kms   Three Mile Valley
2.4 kms   Five Rivers Lookout
2.6 kms   Trial Tree
2.7 kms   Afghan Cemetery
2.9 kms   Pioneer Cemetery Wyndham
21.4 kms   The Grotto
29.3 kms   Pentecost River
3.6 kms   Crocodile Lookout
3.7 kms   Koolama Wreck Site
31.3 kms   The Gut
32.9 kms   Cockburn Range
35.1 kms   Cambridge Gulf
5.1 kms   Moochalabra Dam
61.9 kms   Black Rock Falls
62.7 kms   Stockmans Grave
64.1 kms   Middle Springs
64.2 kms   Ivanhoe Crossing
64.3 kms   Diversion Dam
66.5 kms   Bandicoot Bar

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