So we were crossing the East Alligator River at the Cahill crossing in Kakadu; this is an area full of crocs - big ones - and someone has already been killed here. Aside from all the normal croc warnings they post here, every now and then the National Parks people give you an ‘extreme danger’ sign, when they really, really mean it. Despite all this, a bunch of people were fishing off the levee - some of them even standing in the water, which is murky and deep right up to the edge of the crossing. We snapped the croc basking above metres from the crossing later in the afternoon.
I never did figure out whether they were locals who’d calculated the risk based on local knowledge, or clueless tourists destined to become a statistic at some point in their lives…