This comes after emergency responders spent days searching for the local teen who was trying to swim in the Barren River. Officials returned to the scene of the water rescue on River Street ...

The Department of Environment last week erected a croc warning sign at the Oak Forest swimming hole near Kuranda. Picture: ...

Xian Abbott grew up in the area and remembers swimming at Oak Forest and downstream at Big Sands. He remembers a salties in the 80s being caught in the Barron River around Kuranda. “I think they ...