|
Gladys in the early 1990s used to be a regular visitor at feeding time.
|
As many of you will know, Gladys was cared for at the Sanctuary several years ago, and about five weeks after we returned her to the wild, she came back. We have no idea how she found her way back, but she did, and still visits at least three times a week, occassionally bringing a friend with her. When the tide is in and allows her an easy journey up the Helford, Gladys can, more often than not, be found waiting on the mud below our pump house for Courtney or, more precisely, for Courtney´s bucket of fish.
Courtney calls to Gladys and she will cautiously make her way along a narrow channel in the mud to within a few feet of him. Sometimes she climbs onto the mud bank and, when Courtney´s aim is not as good as it should be, she slides through the mud at a rate of knots after the fish.
Gladys has become something of a celebrity and now features in a couple of postcards recently commissioned by the Sanctuary from local cartoonist André Ellis. The postcards can be found in "The Gallery" our art shop next door to the Shipwreck Aquarium. (I think that can be classed as an unabashed plug!).
Newsletter words by Mary-Ann Tompkins
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary
Issue Date: 12th May 1992
|
|