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| The travelling seal; Grey seal stops traffic | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 14 2008, 01:56 PM (61 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Feb 14 2008, 01:56 PM Post #1 |
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From this morning's Halifax Chronicle Herald - Parrsboro (a little town on the Minas Basin) - Sometimes when you're out for a stroll, you can make traffic stop without even trying. That was the case Sunday morning when a grey seal decided to take a hike along Hwy 2 in search of what life's like away from the water. Exhausted from its journey, it came to rest on the side of the highway near the crest of a steep hill about 10 km from Parrsboro and the Minas Basin, its normal saltwater home. (To make a long story short), the seal was more than six feet long and weighed 350 to 400 pounds. Fisheries and Oceans personnel and the RCMP came out, and discovered that their capture net was too small for the size of the seal, so a local fisherman brought a canvas tarp. But the exhausted seal didn't want its walk interrupted. A seal is a pretty aggressive animal and snapped at the officers several times, before they were able to prod it onto the middle of the tarp. Seals are not that fussy about being approached by humans, anyway. After about an hour, they managed to get it moved into the middle of the tarp, wrapped it up and sealed the ends so it couldn't bite them. But it was way too big and heavy for them to carry it. So a local farmer came with his tractor with a front loading bucket, drove it back to the beach and let it go. It didn't take the seal long to find the water, and away he swam, for about 15 minutes in the inner harbour and then headed out to sea. Nobody knows why the seal would travel so far from its natural habitat, but it isn't uncommon. There was once one found near the Halifax International Airport, it had travelled up the lake and river system from the Bay of Fundy, nobody knows why. |
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| Kahu | Feb 14 2008, 02:48 PM Post #2 |
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Balsam's story brings to mind, a strange visitor, a sea elephant........Blossom! Blossom visited the same spot for a least five years in a row. Oriental Bay, is the New Zealand equivalent of the Riviera or Cote d'Azur......a beautiful, but very expensive place to live!
Normally Blossom would sunbathe on the roadway, and no one could get close enough to get him to move, so traffic cones were put out, and the traffic moved slowly round him.
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