a real whale tail, maybe.One of the more bizarre bits of news we’ve seen around the place recent­ly was the Case of the Fake Whale Tail in Welling­ton Har­bour.

Sev­er­al peo­ple spot­ted what they thought was a wind­surfer in dis­tress off the Petone beach, so a launch was sent out to make a res­cue. Upon arriv­ing at the scene, the res­cuers dis­cov­ered it was, in fact, a well made plas­tic whale tail, that had been anchored to the seabed, and was doing a pret­ty good imi­ta­tion of the real thing, flap­ping and splash­ing around in the surf as if a par­tic­u­lar­ly frol­ic­some sperm whale. Or maybe a south­ern right whale. Either way, the whale has been deemed a marine haz­ard, and if not already removed, will be short­ly.

We here at Welling­ton­ista Tow­ers can only but admire who­ev­er was behind the mak­er of such a point­less object, and hope they have more in store…