NEW SOUTH WALES / TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA — It’s been a week of seals getting into sticky situations in the land down under.
On July 19, a group of tourists on Manyana Beach stumbled upon a baby seal trapped in a green fishing net, alone and scared. The tourists quickly found help in the form of some local surfers, who grabbed a knife and managed to cut the seal loose.
The moment he broke away, he bolted for the ocean and never looked back, much to the delight of his rescuers.
A week later on July 26, a 265-pound male seal was found sleeping in the women’s bathroom of a cemetery in Tasmania. Wildlife officers, who named the seal “Sammy,” think he likely swam up a creek from the ocean roughly 500 meters away.
After being sedated and transported out of the bathroom, he too was returned to the water.
