crocodile sighting!!!

7.30am: resident croc (RC) can be seen sunbathing at the right side river bank

RC eyeballing myself and theflyingdutchman

RC decided to move off to the middle part of the river

RC with it's head, body and tail surfacing. is it a sign of intimidation?

squatter residents are either oblivious to the presence of RC or are they fed up to see RC already?

went fishing at the bako coastway earlier today with theflyingducthman (an angler that came out of retirement). brought 2 setups, i.e. bottom fishing setup and casting setup. also brought along my dad's kodak dx7590 digital camera (with 10x zoom)... hoping to capture my catch if any. at the back of my mind, i knew of a resident croc that has been around the area and was hoping to immortalize the fella in digital format.

upon reaching the spot, i went to scan the horizon for the bugger. then my eye caught a glimpse of something on the far right river bank, which water was receding fast due to low tide. as the sun was not really up yet, i had to settle for a guess that the "log" i spotted was the resident croc. i took a few snaps of photograph nonetheless. we moved to the fishing spot. rigged our gear and waited. as the water recede and the sun rose, it became clear that it was indeed the resident croc, having a sunbath. it was about 50m or so away, so theflyingdutchman and myself weren't that worried, so we continued to fish away.

an hour into fishing, the resident croc decided to wakeup. it slid slowly into the water and started swimming at our directions. we were on our toes by then. it then decided to keep a distance of approximately 30m and stated swimming parallel to the shore that we were standing at. it just kept it's head up and eyeballed us for a few minutes before swimming further to the middle of the river. soon it was hovering in the middle of the river but this time, it's head, body and tail broke surface as well. i didn't know what it was up to? maybe it was trying to show aggression, maybe it was sunbathing i will never know.

now that the resident croc moved further away from us but nearer to a squatters settlement. we continued to fish but we never took our eyes of the fella. then suddenly it dived into the murky depths. just as that happened, we could see much further away... maybe 200m away, 4 people from the squatters were walking/swimming in chest high water to their boat, anchored far from shore so as not to get stuck during low tide. i must have mumbled something like "those people got balls ooo!!!"

anyway, after that a few more anglers came to fish around the area. there were hardly any action beside the sole eel that i caught. we decided to call it a day at around 10am.