When the tourists are away, the crocs will play.
Crocodiles have taken over the beach at a popular Mexican resort that was shut down due to the coronavirus and is suddenly devoid of tourists for the first time in decades, according to news reports.
Photos from the lagoon beach at La Ventanilla in Oaxaca, an ecotourism resort on Mexico’s southern coast, show several crocs sunning without a single tourist in sight, the Mexican news agency milenio.com reported Sunday.
Some were even caught surfing the waves, Milenio reported.
The resort has been closed since earlier this month when government officials ordered all of the nation’s beaches shut down to halt the spread of COVID-19, the English-language Mexico News Daily said in a report Monday.
The outlet said crocodiles have made their way onto human turf in the region in the past, including an attack on a sleeping fisherman in November.
But the new invasion on the beaches at La Ventanilla marks the first en masse encroachment in decades, the report said.
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