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Wow! So much for the "great, greasy green Limpopo River." ("I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner." - The Elephant's Child, by Rudyard Kipling.) Now we know what they have for dinner. (Admittedly, perhaps a swift death like that is easier... )
The Okavango is also full of crocs, some of them large ones - but I've never had troubles cruising in a makoro (dugout.) OTOH, one German lady who decided to sunbathe topless on the nicely groomed (by hippos) grass by the big deadfall at Xaxanaxa was taken by a croc about the time we were there in 1993... and I have some pix of us swimming at the bridge with the crocodile warning sign (one of us stayed out watching the upstream location they tend to come from.)