12:47 am

Watch for it

This was too good not to blog about!

The first of 29,000 rubber ducks which have been circling the world's oceans for 15 years are expected to wash up on a British beach soon. The ducks fell overboard from a container ship bound for Seattle from China in 1992, reports the BBC.....

.....They have floated along the Alaskan coast, reaching the Bering Strait in 1995. It is thought they were trapped by slow moving ice for several years as it then took them until 2000 to reach the Atlantic ocean.

A year later, they were tracked in the area of the north Atlantic where the Titanic sank. Some broke away and headed for Europe, others have surfaced in Hawaii, Indonesia, Australia and South
America.....


.....Beachcombers will know whether these are the genuine rubber ducks as they will have the words "The First Years" stamped upon them.

Rubber duckies! Who doesn't love rubber duckies! :)
I doubt we'd get any on Singaporean shores.... but I would LOVE to have one!

4 comments:

Rich | Championable said...

That's really cool, actually.

Fiona Kathleen Hogan said...

Rich,
I am rabidly in favour of beachcombing to find a ducky of my own. *chuckles*

Johnny Wadd said...

It sure would be a neat collector's item.

Fiona Kathleen Hogan said...

JW,
I absolutely agree.