I caught a baby New Zealand seal at Burleigh Heads Queensland Australia.
Wrapped him up in my wetsuit and ran half a mile on dusk, Naked, over
rocks (as it was getting sucked into Tally river) to my car. The car
park was packed cause the surf was epic.
Here I was with my hand over my bits (no undies), a seal in my
wetsuit in the other while looking for my keys under the car and my
border collie dog wondering what the hell was going on, Not to mention
all the on lookers to check out the latest freak (it was winter too, not
a good show)
Any way I shoved the seal on the front seat floor, board wedged between
the driver and passenger seats (so it couldn’t get to me). I through
the dog in the back and drove 25 min to sea world fun park and gave him
to them. The seal and my dog eyeballed each other the whole way… I
was Tripping out totally!
I got to name him, I called him “Burleigh”. He currently performs in the
seal show at his new home with half a dozen other seals. They said I
can go see him when ever I wanted and that he would surely have died had
I not rescued him.
…All this cause one old bloke an hour before I even saw the seal said
he saw a seal that looked sick and a long way from home (we don’t get
seals on the east coast).
And Damn, did I wrestle with this little bugger to catch him and get him
in my wetsuit. I hid behind a pile of drift wood, he limped up the only
bit of sand bank around (as if on que) and Then I ambushed him and got
between him and the water. And he had teeth, sooo funny, Loved it, the
full barking seal, roll and wrestle with hands around his neck, Not that
they have much of a a neck.
I’m known around sea world as the “naked surfer”
I even turned on the TV one day and there was a story about it (with out names). That sea world organized on Totally wild.
Here
is a recent photo of me and Burleigh after one of his shows. Apparently
hes a bit of a mischief maker, That’s my Boy ha ha.
PS I was inspired to write this cause I just read afoaf’s thread “resinhead, you heartless savage” thats to sad.
