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Crocodile fished out of Northern Territory tourist park pool
A crocodile enjoying a dip in a caravan park swimming pool made such a splash that tourists had to abandon their water aerobics class.
Tourists at the Northern Territory caravan park woke to find a 1.5-metre croc enjoying the pool.
The freshwater crocodile did not want his luxury holiday to end and refused to leave the park to make way for the scheduled aqua aerobics class.
Rangers were called to the Howard Springs Holiday Park, about 30km southeast of Darwin, about 9am (CST) on Tuesday to remove the reptile.
"The crocodile gave one of the crocodile management rangers a bit of a run-around, having to chase it around the pool," NT Parks and Wildlife senior ranger Tom Nichols said in a statement.
"The crocodile did not have any markings so we believe it to be a wild animal," he said.
"While we can't be sure how it got there, it's likely it came through the swamps that join up from the Howard River.
"The ranger managed to capture and remove it with a scoop net."
The NT crocodile management team also removed two estuarine crocodiles measuring 3.5m and 3.3m from permanent traps in Darwin Harbour on Tuesday morning.
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I live in Canada and I wrote to 100s in Au from Dec 2009 to May 2010 that I think that there are safer and cheaper techniques and trapping inventions to catch and to control crocs.
I wonder why no one responds. What if that croc entered the pool while people were doing their swimming aerobics. There should be safety inventions immediately available just as are Fire Extinguishers for fires.
Note: I sent in about 35+ ideas to the Cane Toad Abatement Plan, still waiting for any response.
Smoke and crocs can extinguish people.
From Canada, Kenneth Hilliam
writekenneth@hotmail.com
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