Sea Lion blocks the road

Johnny Mac shares five feel-good news stories including a kite surfer in New Zealand finding a long-lost surfboard from Tasmania, which traveled 1500 miles. An Austrian surfer breaks a world record, surfing for over eight hours on a manmade wave. A 1916 message in a bottle is discovered in Australia, leading to a reunion with soldiers' descendants. A dog missing for seven years is reunited with its owner after a burglary. Lastly, a sea lion causes a traffic delay but is safely returned to its river by wildlife rescuers.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Kalaroga Shark Media yikes on this first one him Johnny
Mack with five good news stories. It started out as
a bad day for a kite surfer, turned out into
a miracle. Alvaro was out kite surfing off the coast
of New Zealand. His kite got caught in the water
and dragged him out to sea. He let it go.

(00:25):
He paddled toward the shore, figuring that was enough for
the day, and then he saw something lying on the sand.
A surfboard, not just any surfboard. He flipped it over.
It was covered in barnacles and mussels. He said, it's
not the kind we use around here every day. He
scraped off a few shells. He saw the name Liam
etched underneath. He took the surfboard home. He posted some

(00:46):
photos online. A few days later, he got a message
from Liam. Liam was a surfer who lost the board
off the coast of Tasmania back in May. That's fifteen
hundred miles away. Liam couldn't believe it, he told Alvarro
it was one of his favorite boards. Experts say the
board may have drifted across the Tasman Sea via the
East Australian current that, by the way, is the same

(01:08):
current that carried Nemo's dad and Dory in finding Nemo. Meanwhile,
an Austrian surfer, not an Australian surfer and Austrian surfer,
spent eight hours, five minutes and forty four seconds on
his board to break the Guinness World Record for longest
time spent surfing a wave. He did this at River Wave,
using a man made wave that uses currents from nearby

(01:30):
rivers to create a permanent surfing wave in Austria no breaks.
He used a spoon to eat a cup of soup
while continuing to surf. He destroyed the old record, which
was three hours, fifty five minutes two seconds that was
done by a guy in the Panama Canal. I guess
you can't do this in the ocean, right the waves
don't last for hours and hours. Let's keep it on
the beach. A message in a bottle washed up off

(01:53):
Wharton Beach, Australia. Deborah and her family were cleaning up
the beach picking up some trash. Her daughter spotted an
old glass bottle in the sand. Inside two letters dated
nineteen sixteen, signed by soldiers Malcolm and William. Malcolm's letter
said he was from Wilka Watts, South Australia. Using Facebook,
Deebra managed to track down his family, including his great

(02:15):
nephew Herbie. Herbie said, it's been amazing how much has
come to the surface in a short time. In WW one,
Malcolm was twenty eight and killed during the war in France,
months after tossing the bottle into the sea. They also
found the descendants of the other soldier, William, who did
make it home from the war. His granddaughter Anne said,
we're all absolutely stunned. There five grandchildren who are still alive.

(02:37):
Do you feel very much like our grandfather has reached
out to us from the grave. Experts say the bottle
might not have spent one hundred and nine years at sea.
They think it likely floated for a few weeks before
washing up nearby, where it could have been buried in
the sand for a century. A dog was reunited with
its owner after seven years. The dog had gone missing

(02:57):
during a burglary. Yeah Gabrielle at Her dog Luca, went
missing after she arrived home from work at four am
and found her front door had been kicked in by
a burglar. The dog was gone too. Officer Bishops bought
at a friendly pop wandering alone. As soon as he
opened the patrol car door, a Lucas jumped in, knowing
he was saved. Luke was taken to the local vet.
They scanned the microchip they found the owner, which told

(03:20):
Lucas still loves his favorite snack, strawberries and peanut butter.
All right, John, why we are laid for work this time? Well, yeah,
sea boss. I was driving there along the road and
then in the middle of the road there was a
sea lion. The Cosmopolis Police Department set on social media
that a large friend, as they phrased it, was spotted
loitering in traffic on Blue Slough Road during heavy rains.

(03:44):
They called in the Department of Fish and Wildlife. They
were like, hey, there's a sea lion on the road.
What are we supposed to do here? The rescuers were
able to haze the sea lion out of the road
and back into a river. Experts say sea lions are
known to visit land for numerous reasons, including resting, avoiding predators,
and regulating their body temperature and those that your five
good news stories for today have a good one.