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…