SEA LEOPARD LASSOOED

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1931, Page 8

SEA LEOPARD LASSOOED

HEAD “LIKE A SERPENT.” A sea leopard, a stranger to the coastal waters of New South 'Wales, ran ashore at Bateman’s Bay recently. Alter being lassooed it was placed on a lorry and is now in the Coogee Aquarium.. The left pa rd is a fearsome looking creature, 15ft. long, wi|th a hump on his back and a serpent,ike head. Two fishermen who caught him say that there is no don bit Unit the loop.* i d is l e original “sea serpent” reported i're- , quentiy on parts of the coast of Non South Wales The creature has a tapering back a most rising to a hump, and a lo g double tail, which is forked and give the leopard the appearance of having four tails. The head is long and sei-pent-like; the n.outh very wide. The leopard swims wilh its head we ! above water, and sit night, when viewed by an expert was blowing like a grampus. The expert expressed ;he opinion that the motor-’orry dash from Bateman’s Bay to Coogee p.o ably bad some effect on ies respiratory organ*. 'The capture pf the an anal, it is, said will explode the theory once and 'r all that sea serpents haunt the Australian coast.