City's Crocodile Dundee survives desert walkabout

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WINDHOEK: Retired conservationist Peter Mostert thought he had seen it all, but when he came across a large crocodile on the side of the national road near Grünau in Namibia at the weekend, he could not believe his eyes.
Mostert and his wife Tess were returning from a holiday in the Cape when they drove past what looked like a torn tyre at the roadside.  "I told her it looked like a crocodile and turned around to go back. She told me I was crazy. But sure enough there it was,"he added.
Mostert summoned help and the crocodile was captured. It turned out to be "Dundee", which had clambered off the back of a bakkie while being transported from Cape Town's Ratanga Junction amusement park to the Windhoek Show Snake Park last week.
Mostert received the R1 000 reward that was offered when the reptile went missing and Dundee has been safely delivered in Windhoek
His owner, Bryan Vorster, had not expected the crocodile to survive in the heat and without food and water. "He only had a few scrapes under his feet which probably happened when he jumped out,"said Voster.
Dundee, 2.5m long, is recovering from his ordeal under a thorn bush at the Snake Park.