Wednesday 20 August 2008

Yacht Sucker


Well they've finally done it; they've named a humpback whale after me. Yes Colin, the baby humpback whale has been lost in Sydney waters the last couple of days after somehow losing his mother. He has already been lead out to sea once but keeps coming back into Sydney's Pittwater nuzzling yachts obviously thinking that they are his mother. A yachty was woken up this morning to the sound of what seemed like a giant vacuum sucking on the bottom of his boat. It was Colin.

Colin only has a couple of days to survive without his mother's milk. The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service are trying to find a way to provide Colin with baby formula milk to keep him alive until they can find a way of returning him successfully to the wild. Meanwhile no yacht's bottom in Pittwater is safe.
C

2 comments:

Monty said...

Maybe your young namesake is a chain smoking, yoga practicing, sharp witted whale and the only logical name for him was Colin! :-) OR maybe your good self is well known for locking lips with local yachties and they saw the resemblence! LOL

Anonymous said...

I am still laughijng at Monty's comment above. But I was going to say it's a good thing you only have a 29-footer and not a 65-footer. ;-)