A 6-metre-long "man-eater sized" crocodile has stalked two Queensland fishermen while they sat in a small boat in the Hinchenbrook Channel north of Ingham.
Whitsunday man Andy Thomsen and a friend were fly fishing from their dinghy when the monster croc appeared only 2m away and "scared the s--- out of" them.
The keen angler captured the whole ordeal with a camera strapped to his head to record for his YouTube channel.
"This is a man-eater sized croc and if we had not been watching who knows what it may have done," Mr Thomsen told the Townsville Bulletin.
Over a 50 minute period the carnivorous reptile had followed them for more than 50m and then another 2km before popping up in the water beside them.
"We were sliding down the food chain," Mr Thomsen wrote in the video.
"I've never got that close to one before," he said about the encounter on the weekend.
"If it had have stayed up, I don't know what we would have done."
Despite his terrifyingly close encounter, Mr Thomsen said he would not be giving fishing away any time soon.
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/12/04/11/20/queensland-fishermen-stalked-by-6m-man-eating-croc#RwhCVsBKiV4MlgDf.99
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