When I went to Australia three years ago my first stop was Cairns in the far North. Walking along the beach promenade there were signs, large prominent signs, with a sketch of massive crocodile jaws and extreme warnings that you would be attacked as prey if you went in the water. I was pretty stoked to be in Australia and I'm all about the beach and swimming so if those signs weren't prominently displayed with extreme warnings I might have gone in. Obviously now I know that swimming in any body of water in the Australian tropics is stupid beyond belief, but being from places that are pretty wild life benign like Canada or Nebraska these thoughts don't come that naturally.
I looked at this resort beach in google street view and there's one small white wooden movable sign pole that just says no swimming, they should have definitely included stronger language.
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