One visitor had already begun swimming lengths before realising they were not alone but, luckily, the baby freshwater crocs were too little to pose much of a threat.

“A lap swimmer said they didn’t want to alarm me but there was a small crocodile swimming beside them,” said pool director Brian Rodriquez.

“I jumped in with the pool scoop to get him out but then there were two, then three, then four and five. It is not every day you find little crocodiles swimming around.”

Via Metro.