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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Beer? Yes. Crocs? No. Crocodile Dundee pub enters a new era

Angus Brodie and Jo Cranney, the new owners of the Walkabout Creek hotel, which was made famous in the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee.
Angus Brodie and Jo Cranney, the new owners of the Walkabout Creek hotel, which was made famous in the 1986 film. Photograph: Angus Brodie

An enormous Bowie knife whirls through the air and thuds into a wooden bar, sending a shudder of excitement through the cluster of men wearing leather hats, blue jeans, flannelette vests and dirty tees carousing in an outback pub.

Bursting through the front door, a man follows the knife, engaged, it seems, in mortal combat with a saltwater crocodile. But the drinkers erupt with laughter as the “mad bugger” – adorned in crocodile teeth and skin – wrangles the stuffed beast to the bar and orders two drinks: “One for me, one for me mate”.

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