Chilling detail in footage of family on holiday at Lake Argyle Dam

An Australian has captured a chilling detail in a video of a family canoeing across a seemingly harmless lake.

An Australian woman has issued a stark warning to families who were oblivious to one chilling detail while spending the day on a seemingly family friendly lake.

The woman captured the moment a family went canoeing and stand up paddle boarding across Lake Argyle Dam on the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

However, the family appeared unaware of a big crocodile trap just metres away from them.

“You can see some families … they’re going to go on a nice little canoeing trip up the river, this lovely river,” she says in the video before panning the camera to the left.

“And that’s a crocodile trap, right there, for catching big old fat f***ing salty crocodiles.

“Aw look at the children — yummy, juicy children — and croc trap, massive, massive croc trap.

“Australia, come on down, have a wonderful holiday, we don’t give a f***,” she said.

Many laughed at the video, remarking that it’s classic Australia.

“Straya. It’s bonza, mate,” one person commented.

Another asked if the woman making the video is aware that “crocs walk on land too”, while another commenter said the lake is fairly safe to swim in as freshwater crocodiles are “less aggressive and smaller”.

The lake has the world’s largest population of Johnston River crocodiles.

Despite this, the lake is host to an annual swim in May of each year.

An Australian woman captured the moment a family went canoeing and stand up paddle boarding across Lake Argyle Dam on the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Picture: X/@clowndownunder

However the family appeared unaware of a big crocodile trap just metres away from them. Picture: X/@clowndownunder

She said the crocodile trap is “right there”.

The video comes after a woman was bitten by a crocodile while swimming in the lake in 2022, while there have been increasing calls in Queensland to increase fines for feeding crocodiles following the death of a NSW doctor.

David Hogbin was walking on a popular path above a riverbank at the Annan River near Cooktown in Far North Queensland when the ground suddenly gave way, causing him to fall into the river on August 3.

The remains of the father of three were found in a 4.9m crocodile, which police later confirmed they had tracked and euthanised.

While formal identification is still underway, police are confident the remains found belong to the missing man.

“Police are working with wildlife officers as investigations continue,” a statement from Queensland Police read.

Footage has emerged of people feeding crocodiles, believed to be at the Annan River, with calls to raise penalties for the act.

There are calls to lift the penalties to the same amount people are fined for feeding dingoes in K’gari, which was reported at $11,500 in 2022.

However current fines for feeding crocodiles sit at $6,452.

Originally published as Chilling detail in footage of family on holiday at Lake Argyle Dam