Eyewitnesses have recently reported seeing a large creature swimming in the murky depths of Cameron Lake, situated between Port Alberni and Parksville along Highway 4.
A team of researchers, according to the CBC, took to the waters last Saturday and their equipment had indeed come upon something that they believed to be a large animal. But due to equipment failure their expedition ground to a halt.
The speculation is the animal may be a giant sturgeon, a large eel or a massive salamander. The team will be back this summer.
Eyewitness reports of something in the lake have been around for several years. Back in 2009 a recovered mystery "carcass" proved to be nothing more than a lily root, but people maintain something large lives in the lake.