New peril on the Pisuerga River?

[Stephen]

Don't be taking the opportunity to cool your feet in this river until this mystery is cleared up. Witnesses, including a police officer, have reported sightings of a crocodile .

 

[VNwalking]

No worries. This is near Valladolid, miles away from the Camino Frances - but it is near the Madrid. An entertaining story, to be sure.

Spanish police search river after sightings of Nile crocodile

Residents of towns in Castilla y Léon region told to stay away from banks of Pisuerga River

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bad Pilgrim]

I always found pine needles to be the main peril on the Camino de Madrid

 

[Pelegrin]

I heard on the radio today that there is no trace of the crocodile and they are thinking it was a "fat otter".

 

[VNwalking]

I heard on the radio today that there is no trace of the crocodile and they are thinking it was a "fat otter".

A meter and a half long!? Some otter. "Fat" would not be my choice of adjectives.
Sign me up - I definitely want to see this.

 

[Bad Pilgrim]

I knew it. Moral of the story: Nile Crocodiles are scary, but they don't have a thing on Pine Forest.

 

[VNwalking]

OK, I can't resist, BP.
There is a story here. Tell us.

 

[miguel_gp]

Mystery solved. It was a Croc seen floating in the river. Just not a Nile one

 

[Dsavid Keyte]

No worries. This is near Valladolid, miles away from the Camino Frances - but it is near the Madrid. An entertaining story, to be sure.

Spanish police search river after sightings of Nile crocodile

Residents of towns in Castilla y Léon region told to stay away from banks of Pisuerga River

www.theguardian.com

The Pisuerga river actually rises in Palencia and crosses the camino Frances, depends if the croc swims North or South

 

[Bad Pilgrim]

OK, I can't resist, BP.
There is a story here. Tell us.

It's too traumatic!

 

[scruffy1]

I would fear bed bugs far more.

 

[alansykes]

I passed through Herrera de Pisuerga on the Camino Lebaniego-Castellano a couple of years ago. It is the world centre of the crayfish, and obsessed with them - there is a large statue of a crayfish on the centre of town, many bars and restaurants with their own special ways of cooking them, a Casa de Cangrejos interpretation centre/museum, and an annual Fiesta de Exaltación del Cangrejo de Río which, sadly, I missed by several months.

Perhaps one of their crayfish got over exaltacion-ed and mutated into a giant one and swam downstream?

 

[VNwalking]

Perhaps one of their crayfish got over exaltacion-ed and mutated into a giant one and swam downstream?

Ummmm...
Please just let it be a croc.

 

[Albertagirl]

Thanks to all above. I needed a good laugh.