With no phone reception to call for help, and a 4-5 hour walk away from the nearest populated area, the friends had no choice but to take turns building up material under the tyres - by hand - to increase traction and acting as lookout for any crocs approaching the vehicle. "We were quite scared given the situation, because there are crocs that have been pulled from there recently," the man said.  Two friends were lucky not to encounter any crocs when their 4WD got bogged in a swampy area in Howard Springs. Picture: The Outback Rep  "It was only a couple of hundred metres away that rangers captured two crocs in the space of a week or two.