Rangers converge on tourist town to begin night hunt
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WILDLIFE officers will patrol the waters of Port Douglas tonight in an attempt to find a crocodile believed to have taken Anne Cameron.
Up to 20 rangers and four boats from the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection have converged on the tourist town to assist in the search.
EHP wildlife director Michael Joyce said he was confident his search team will 'get the result we need'.
"We have some of the best croc people in the world here," he said.
Acting Inspector Ed Lukin told a press conference today 'the logical conclusion' was the 79 year-old was dead and that a crocodile was involved.
Ms Cameron, who suffers from dementia, was last seen leaving the Ozcare aged care facility in Craiglie on Tuesday afternoon.
Police found clothes, a walking stick and human remains in an area near the Craiglie Creek yesterday, which runs off the Mowbray River.
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Floating crocodile traps will be placed in the Mowbray River, while officers and SES volunteers continue to scour the southern end of Four Mile Beach 'for items that may assist in the investigation'.
A three-metre crocodile captured and removed from Dicksons Inlet in Port Douglas yesterday has been ruled out as the animal responsible for the woman's disappearance.
Ms Cameron had recently moved to Port Douglas from Canberra to be closer to her son, Craig Eggins, and granddaughter Isabella Eggins.
She was an avid walker and a known bushwalker in the nation's capital. Police confirmed she had previously wandered away from the Ozcare facility only to be assisted back by a member of the public.
The area she walked through was ‘very very dense and thick’, according to Lukin.
“One of my officers took about 20 minutes to traverse the distance of about 300 metres,” he said.
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