A young couple have had a close encounter with a saltwater crocodile hidden in a waterhole.

Jackson Coffey, 29, and his partner Steph came across the apex predator last Monday, camouflaged at the bottom of an escarpment pool in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, on the north coast of Western Australia .

The pair had passed by the pool without noticing the croc just metres away from a series of Indigenous rock paintings, and intended to jump in on the way back.

“I was just talking about going swimming in here ... There’s literally a croc. You’re joking,” Jackson said in a video posted to YouTube .

Steph added that she felt “sick” knowing that Jackson would have been “swimming in there” if he hadn’t spotted the reptile.

Jackson noted in another video posted to Facebook that he wasn’t ex

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