This isn't the discredited "bush tucker" days of the 80s and 90s, saltwater crocodile and red kangaroo are used sensitively upstairs on the Orana tasting menu or in the casual Street bar downstairs as croc dogs, hop dogs or carpaccio.
One croc had "caved" his face, another had grabbed his hand and dragged him under.
The croc may be thinking of its lunch; it may be yawning, as the aboriginal boatman suggests.
Chomped in half by a croc as he gave it a loving hug.
Run a lawnmower at a croc, see it launch itself right into the air to seize him.
Mock croc 'Oxford English Dictionary', £55, Aspinal of London 14. 'The Man with the Golden Gun' first edition, £1,250, Quintessentially Gifts 15. 'The Missing Ink' by Philip Hensher, £14.99, Pan Macmillan 16. 'Rules of Civility' book, £5.59, Waterstones 17. 'Quotable' pencils, £6.99, The Oak Room.
The main attractions of Darwin are the deckchair cinema, some Second World War oil tunnels and Crocosaurus Cove, where you can meet Burt, the croc who menaced Linda Kozlowski, Hogan's love interest in the film (and in real life: they were married for 24 years).
"Several of the group in the party witnessed the male being taken in the jaws of the croc for a period of time, and then he was out of sight," said Senior Sergeant Geoff Bahnert from the Northern Territory Police Force.
After we'd paused to admire another croc, this one sunning himself on a rock with his mouth wide open, Mick told us the horrific story of Ginger Meadows, a young American model who, having watched Crocodile Dundee in 1986, decided to visit Australia.
But yesterday it was a lawnmower that took the fancy of Elvis, a 16-foot croc living in a reptile park north of Sydney.
It wasn't her 10-inch blue mock croc platforms - which now reside in the V&A - that silenced me but her dashing tartan kilt.
