Crocodile, the killler of water

[Tshokwane]

Gillian Leigh Soames:
This is most definately the biggest crocodile I have ever seen in my entire life!


We have seen plenty of massive crocs in our lifetime of travels, from the meneere on the banks of the Crocodile River at Malelane and Ngwenya to the beasts in and on the banks of the Nile River during our river cruise in Egypt in 2006.

The Zambezi River also contains some of the biggest crocs imaginable, but THIS croc is most certainly the Ultra-Mega-Super-Heavyweight titleholder in Africa.

We were driving along the Shingwedzi River Road on 31 March 2016, when we noticed BIG SPLASHING way on the other side of the river. We initially thought that it was a hippo frolicking in the water.

Next thing we saw this HUGE head, neck and teeth emerge from under the water with a barbel in its mouth. The barbel looked like a goldfish in comparison to this monster's teeth.

Lady luck was on my side as he swam further upstream where he settled next to 2 BIG crocodiles who were also in the water.

As soon as this guy approached, both crocodiles left the water and crawled onto the adjacent rocks, distinctly keeping a very wide berth of him.

Bear in mind that the two crocs - out of the water and on the rocks - are big crocs in their own right....then compare them to the tank of all tanks in the water!!

Photo was taken at full 600 zoom and cropped slightly to scale of the other crocs.

A realistic estimation is that he was AT LEAST 5.5 meters long!! You really had to be there to get the grasp of his enormity!

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