Wednesday, April 21 2010, 11:05 BST
By Mayer Nissim, Entertainment Reporter
A water aerobics class at an Australian holiday park was delayed when a 1.5-metre crocodile was found in the swimming pool.
Staff at the Howard Springs Holiday Park on the outskirts of Darwin discovered the creature half an hour before the class was due to start, ABC News reports.
The park's manager Geoff Thompson said: "We went down like normal to check the pools out - chlorine and test them, give them a scoop out.
"[On] Tuesdays and Thursdays the local ladies of Howard Springs do their water aerobics. And there was a crocodile in there.
"They were all there waiting for the ranger to collect it and once he got it out of the water they started their aerobics."
Parks and Wildlife senior ranger Tom Nichols added: "The crocodile gave one of the crocodile management rangers a bit of a run around, having to chase it around the pool, but he managed to capture and remove it with a scoop net.
"The crocodile did not have any markings so we believe it to be a wild animal. 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."
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