FRIENDLY SEA LION;
PLAYGROUND IN EV&NS- BAY. '■ WILLING TON, September 1-9: .A visitor. from, the far south, a. i?ea lioii, haa- tJeen- Evans -Bay, hn the vicinity of .Miramar Wharf, during the week. Th e visitor, about. 4ft. 6in. long, first made its appearance last Sunday .and spent most of. its t-mc on a- small, punt moored ‘ome distance from the .wharf,, and •on one of the lower beams-of. Miarmair Whprf itself. Sometimes .it swam to an oil-tnnkor moored at the ‘"Burnham Wharf, where < •ltorested people fed it with sprats and other .fish. • ... . • i.
A blue crane, a bird of some rar'ty, tri-i-ed at the Miramar Whuirf at the same time, and the twot became comrades.. Together they uvonhi bask in the siirishine, and when the : sea ilioh dived 'in and swam for the beam . on Miramar Wharf ■ the bluie crane would fly to the he am ohovo.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1932, Page 3
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148FRIENDLY SEA LION; Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1932, Page 3
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