A fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) worker from Melbourne had her first ever encounter with a crocodile while walking her dog at the boat ramp under Katherine's High Level Bridge in the NT
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With elevated river levels due to flooding across the region, Heidi Cox said she had just taken a photo of the water when she spotted a suspicious shadow on the boat ramp.
"I looked up and thought 'that looks like a crocodile'," she said.
"It was a significant size and fat."
Ms Cox said as the reptile was facing her she couldn't see the size of its snout, but due to the animal's overall size she suspected it was a saltwater crocodile.
"I quickly grabbed my phone again, filmed it and left.
"I wasn't going to stick around to study it any further."
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When looking at her photos and video later, Ms Cox concluded that the croc was "just a well-fed freshwater crocodile", possibly up to 3m in length.
"But if this is what a freshie looks like, I'll no longer consider swimming in places where the locals say 'there's usually only freshies'," she said.