Black fine-line tattoo of the word Crikey with a crocodile-like shape on the outer ankle, in a fine line lettering style.

Crikey lettering with crocodile on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A black fine-line tattoo reads "Crikey" in cursive script on the side of a heel and ankle. A thin outlined crocodile-like shape, with a tail on the left and a toothed edge on the right, frames the word. The ink is solid black, and the photo is taken straight on against a black and white tiled floor.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The crocodile had been loitering under the pontoon since the wet, and Dot Halloran had stopped pretending it was a log. Every morning at half six she cranked the cable across the creek, and every morning the thing slid off the mud and kept pace with the drum, one knobbled eye above the water like a dropped marble.

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Her nephew Lenny, up from Adelaide for the summer and keen to be useful, leaned over the rail with a sausage roll in one hand. "Crikey," he said, which was what his father said about everything, and the croc took that as an invitation to come closer.

"Don't feed him," Dot said. "He's not a pet. He's a ratepayer with teeth."

They crossed in silence after that. Halfway over, the croc surfaced fully, its tail sweeping a slow S through the brown water, and Lenny stopped chewing. Dot had seen a hundred crocs in fifty years and not one had ever looked at her as if it were reading her mail.

On the far bank the ferry register sat in its tin box, where the log had been kept since her grandfather's day. Dot wrote the date, then under Remarks she wrote: Three crossed. One crocodile, very interested. Lenny laughed so hard he dropped his sausage roll, and the croc, who had been waiting for exactly that, took it.