Kiwi kayaker 'captured' by Kimberley croc A NEW Zealand kayaker has told rescuers he spent two weeks trapped on a remote West Australian island by a massive crocodile which would not let him leave. The man, known only as Ryan, was exploring the northern WA coast near Kalumburu, between Derby and Kununurra. After being left on remote Governor Island, the Kiwi said he realised he didn't have enough supplies and tried to paddle the four kilometres or so to the mainland. But he told rescuers he immediately caught the eye of a resident six-metre saltwater crocodile. Every time he attempted to leave, the crocodile would make its presence felt. On Saturday, local Don McLeod spotted a light on the island, and when he checked it out, the hatless, shirtless and desperate visitor approached. "When I came round through Red Bluff opposite Governor Island I saw a flash in the scrub," Mr McLeod told ABC radio. I went across and Ryan came out looking a bit distraught. He came down the beach, he had no hat on and no shirt on. He was relieved and shocked, and thankful someone had come along because he was running out of options pretty quickly. He is a very, very lucky man. The story Ryan told of his passage to WA was almost as incredible. He said he had travelled from Queensland to the Kimberley on a yacht whose owner was then jailed in the Northern Territory, leaving his passenger stranded for two months. After hitching a lift with a solo yachtsman from the Territory to WA, he was dropped on Governor Island with 160 litres of water, some flour and dry stores. He realised he was unprepared for the Kimberley wilderness, but found his first attempt to reach the mainland thwarted by the massive crocodile. "He said every time he got in his little kayak, which was only 2.5m long, this crocodile - who has lived there for many years and is a monster - has chased him," Mr McLeod said. He was desperate for water when I trotted up. We gave him a cold beer, which was probably the wrong thing, and then he went to sleep about three-quarters of the way home. The New Zealander has been given a bed at a mission on the mainland as he recovers. Attempts to contact him have so far been unsuccessful.