He said it was not a difficult ride in a rowboat, but he does not know anybody who makes the crossing during the winter.
All three said Hamas had been through worse: Israeli bombings and assassinations, exiles from Arab capitals, months-long closures of the Rafah crossing during Mr. Mubarak's reign.
But as the mayor and an accompanying army of workers enacted the recurring drama of the Great East River Crossing during the first day of the transit strike, the bridge's namesake quietly went to work.
There's between 80,000 and 100,000 crocodiles in the Top End, and almost 130 crocodiles were counted in the 6km upstream stretch near Cahill's Crossing during a recent survey.
In the sleek country rocker "Quicksand," a Mexican man describes a border crossing during which the guide for his group leaves in the middle of the night, and the man who takes over dies the next day in the sun.
This problem was particularly pronounced in the period after the seven-hour sea crossing (during which their boat nearly sank), when the family still had to walk 16 hours through the island of Samos to find shelter, water, and food.
