Did you ever look back at a photo and see something you were not expecting? This woman was taking shots of birds on a Darwin beach while unbeknown to her, a two-metre saltwater crocodile sat just metres away.
Dr Kachel was later cropping and bringing colour and light into the photo at home.Dr Ulrike Kachel was supposed to be the one doing the snapping."I was lucky there was one photo where the camera auto focuses on the croc," she said."A fellow birder went there just half an hour later than me and he didn't see a croc in his photos.""He was absolutely just still on the rock," she said.
"All-of-a-sudden my mum says: 'Everyone get out the water … Let's climb this cliff. Let's have a little race. Let's see how quickly we can get up the cliff'," Ms Austin paraphrased. "We all thought that was so fun, we raced up the cliffs and turned back and there was a massive saltwater crocodile right where we'd been swimming."The photos were developed and you can see the crocodile in the background behind us swimming."Croc 'taking refuge'
NT Parks and Wildlife ranger Ian Hunt said crocodiles are still active in the windy and wavy monsoon season. He estimated the croc to be up to two metres long."They do find it more difficult to stay out in the surf, so they find themselves pushed up onto beaches or up into the creeks where they'd prefer to be in the calmer water," he said.
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