Virginia Beach environmental health officials have announced that water quality tests from the Chesapeake Bay beaches have come back clean. The tests followed reports from last weekend of foul-smelling black globules in the water and on the beach. I detailed in a post Wednesday how one city official theorized the globs were sea sponges.
Meanwhile, something else has turned up in local waters. The Virginian-Pilot is reporting that a small alligator or crocodile was captured in a small pond in the 500 block of Progress Lane, which is about a half-mile from Lynnhaven Mall. The animal, possibly a caiman, was only three feet long but could eventually be more than twice that size.
The reptile is in the care of the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach. Aquarium spokeswoman Joan Barnes tells the Virginian-Pilot that the gator was likely the property of an irresponsible pet owner who owned it illegally and who dumped it in the wilds of Virginia Beach when the gator got too big.
Link:
Virginian-Pilot article about the reptile.
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