Alligator Energy

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"With just my eyes and nostrils above the water, I am almost invisible. I may be big and may look slow, but if I am lurking at the waters edge watch out as I can move at incredible speed. I can see you and hear you long before you see me."

Alligator energy was created for a friend who travels to the Alligator Rivers area in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia for work. It is regarded as one of the richest biological regions in Australia, with part of the region in the Kakadu National Park.

The explorer Phillip Parker King made a number of explorations in this area between 1818 and 1822 and named the rivers after the crocodiles which he mistook for alligators as his journals note. "On our course up and down the river, we encountered several very large alligators and some were noticed sleeping on the mud.”