{"id":224706,"date":"2025-10-19T14:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224706\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:02:07","slug":"guests-unruffled-as-crocodile-takes-dip-in-australian-resort-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224706\/","title":{"rendered":"Guests unruffled as crocodile takes dip in Australian resort pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crocodile took a dip in a luxury hotel pool in northeastern <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/australia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australia<\/a> this weekend but failed to stir guests who relaxed in the sun a few steps away.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Video posted on social media showed the juvenile carnivore lying on the bottom of the pool at the Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort in Port Douglas.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to alarm anyone but there is a crocodile in the Sheraton pool,\u201d TikTok user Lisa Keller said in a video showing the scaly predator.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A handful of tourists could be seen taking it easy on sun lounges around the edge of the pool, though none ventured into the water.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cNot a single person cares,\u201d Keller said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The video matched images of the pool on the hotel\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crocodile took a dip in a luxury hotel pool in northeastern Australia this weekend but failed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2840,49,48,37571,107562,107564,107563,19603,66,107561,1059,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-224706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-crocodile","12":"tag-joseph-amerio","13":"tag-lisa-keller","14":"tag-port-douglas","15":"tag-queensland","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-sheraton-grand-mirage-resort","18":"tag-tiktok","19":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}