"Please remember to apply this love and respect to Wally's cousins, our own Common Seals and Grey Seals, who are extremely vulnerable at this time of year due to giving birth to and caring for their pups along our shores. "This success is a great opportunity to highlight the immense pressures that our marine mammals face on a daily basis from human disturbance. "Please always remember to give wildlife space, and put their safety and welfare first! "Thanks to his ability to feed and rest, he has successfully made the long stretch and will hopefully reunite with his own kind again soon. "We are so grateful to the many members of the public who have shown support and love for this walrus by giving him a safe place to rest and gather his strength while visiting our shores ahead of this magnificent journey. He ended up spending quite a bit of time off the coast of Ireland, where. "He was seen swimming back out to sea last night (and even managed to avoid sinking any boats while he was there)! Earlier this year, a walrus rather unimaginatively nicknamed Wally embarked on a grand tour of Europe’s western waters. Seal Rescue Ireland said: "We are absolutely over the moon that he's not only still alive and well, but he is well on his way home to the Arctic. When the 800kg male fancied a break from his wild adventures, he'd haul himself onto the nearest motorboat and take a nap - sometimes for several days. Wally hit headlines this summer having first been spotted in Tenby, Wales in March and has since visited Cornwall, France, Isles of Scilly, Spain and Ireland. Seal Rescue Ireland confirmed that having compared photos of Wally with those taken of a walrus spotted in the Nordic country by the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), there was no doubt that they were one and the same due to his unique scars on the front of both front flippers. READ MORE: Police issue statement after alleyway beside church taped off while forensics work at scene Wally popped up off Tenby, South Wales, in March, before travelling to Cornwall, then swam to the French coast, before moving to Bilbao, Spain.Wally the Walrus has been spotted once again after making a 600-mile trip across the Atlantic Ocean towards his home in the Arctic.Īfter 22 days with no confirmed sightings, people were starting to lose hope of ever seeing the young, wandering walrus again.īut wildlife lovers were relieved to hear that the four-year-old sea mammal was sighted in Iceland on Sunday having made the massive journey from West Cork, where he was last seen three weeks ago. "Wally definitely seems to like Scilly because he's sticking around here - we have no idea how long he'll stay!" Rafe added: "He clearly took a liking to the boat - and it's a nice boat so I don't blame him! History edit Wally is an anthropomorphic walrus. 6 He has also since appeared in various cartoon programs of more recent decades. "He has been popping up around the harbour for over a week now, and has been making himself at home on various different boats."īut this wasn't Rafe's first encounter with Wally, which was just over a week when the friendly walrus attempted to climb onto his own boat. Wally Walrus is an animated cartoon character who appeared in several films produced by Walter Lantz Productions in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Scilly-born Rafe, who is the owner of Calypso Boating Scilly, said: "It's nice to see Wally again. Local boatsman Rafe Ward, 33, spotted Wally basking in the sun in St Mary's harbour while returning from taking visitors out for a tour of local islands, on Saturday (26).
Volunteers from a marine charity are now looking after his welfare to try and. The brazen walrus has been sneaking on to the back of boats for a kip where he can. The 800kg (125st) Arctic walrus, known as Wally, had not been seen for more than three weeks, with spotters saying they were 'starting to lose hope' of ever seeing him again. The popular mammal was seen back in the seaside town of Tenby, Wales, over the weekend for the first time since Easter. The adventurous animal is thought to have drifted from the Arctic on an iceberg and was first spotted around islands north of Scotland.Īnd after a trip to Ireland, Spain, France and Greenland, he showed his tusks again in the Isles of Scilly.Īnd now amusing footage shows the juvenile male enjoying a quick snooze in the sun - lying on the deck of a boat. Wally the travelling Arctic walrus is getting some much-needed rest - by hopping onto the back of boats in the Isles of Scilly to sunbathe. Dubbed a little unkindly as 'Wally the Walrus', the juvenile marine mammal is thought to have fallen asleep on an ice sheet in its native Greenland and drifted thousands of miles south into warmer.
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