A New Zealand was stuck on an island off Western Australia's far northern coast for two weeks after being stalked by a crocodile.
A kayaker has been rescued off Western Australia's far northern coast after being stalked by an enormous crocodile for two weeks, ABC reports.
Don MacLeod happened to see a light on Governor Island, which he found belonged to a tourist that had been stuck on the island for two weeks after he was dropped off by a boat to explore the area in his kayak. He has left with limited food and water and was afraid to leave the island because he thought he would be eaten by a crocodile.
The tourist had tried to get the attention of passing boats by creating a small fire, but was likely passed by as it may have looked like a fisherman's campfire.
According to MacLeod, the crocodile was close to 20 feet long.
"That crocodile I've seen him several times actually going by quite fast," MacLeod said. "One day he just happened to surface alongside me as I was going past and my boat's 20 foot long so he was well up towards the 20 foot mark. Very, very large crocodile, one of the biggest that I know of around here.
"And [it] started following him around so he made it back to the island and pulled his kayak up as far as he could get it and headed cross country back to his camp.
"So he was reduced then to trying to conserve his water and signal [for help]."
The tourist was rescued and has been resting before he starts a new job working at a local general store.
"We gave him a cold beer for a start, which was probably the wrong thing to do, but anyway that got him started," MacLeod said. "And then he went to sleep about three-quarters of the way home, and I gave him a meal and he had a bit of a rest."
MacLeod has a habit of saving people from crocodiles. Not even a day after rescuing the New Zealand man, he helped another man whose boat was attacked by a crocodile.
"He went up to get some water for his yacht to continue his journey in his little tender, rowed it up and on the way back a croc grabbed it and shook it and punched some large holes in it so he managed to get back here and we pulled it up and patched it up with some putty."
He says that encounters between crocodiles and tourists are becoming more common as crocodiles are not as fearful.
"Nowadays, there's more and more people coming and they're losing their fear, and that's where you have these incidents unfortunately," he said.
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