I must admit to being blown away by the number and variety of the bird-life I witnessed at Kakadu, but will readily admit that one of the biggest draw-cards for the park are depicted above.
I don't know if you can see that just below my signature, is the scalp of a fellow tourist, I point that out to show you that even though we were not much more than 15' from that 10' crocodile in the shallows near the log, he his very difficult to see, if you were not paying attention, it would easily be a case of him seeing you, when you were not even aware of his existance.
In the second shot he had come to about 5' of the boat, and I snapped a shot that showed he was still hard to see, even while drawing closer. I wasn't able to get the shot where he slide under water about a foot from the boat, because all the other tourists were rushing to that side of the boat, when the tour guide pointed him out. _ This is not a complaint by me, cause as they were rushing forward, your brave photographer was back peddling to the other side of the boat, pushing Sally in that direction too! - Theory, He would be so full after eating all of them, he wouldn't be interested in skinny me and Sally. Mumma didn't raise no Idiots!
Warning !! Clara has said she saw these things in Florida - She hasn't, THESE ARE ESTUARINE CROCODILES or SALTWATER CROCODILES. They grow twice to three times as large as any Alligator and are about a thousand times more dangerous. The fact that the river is called the South Alligator River was the result of the surveyor who named it thought they were the same, He was an idiot they are not. The only alligators in Australia are in zoos, and lucky for Americans the only real crocodiles are located in your zoos.
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I have seen those things in Florida and they are terrifying. Great shot, but don't get too close.
He does blend in well, I would hate to meet him at night...
(Cue the scary music). Glad you got off the shot...before you got off the boat. The camo sported by this fellow is amazing. No wonder he sneaks up on you so easily!
Ron, the American Crocodile, not to be confused with the American Alligator, lives in the wild at the very bottom of Florida, where I've seen and photographed them (in the Everglades National Park).
These American Crocs can grow to 6.5 meters in length, although the population in Florida rarely reaches this size. They like warm temps and live mostly along the coast in Central and South America, on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides.
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