The armada of 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free from a cargo ship 15 years ago.Since then they have travelled 17,000 miles, floating over the site where the Titanic sank, landing in Hawaii and even spending years frozen in an Arctic ice pack. —Ben Clerkin —Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journey (Daily Mail)
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Holly, thanks for tipping me off on the Hohn essay. Next time I’m in the office I’ll see whether my library has a Harper’s subscription.
What a coincidence that you posted on this! Did you see Donovan Hohn’s essay from Jan. 2007 Harper’s, “Moby Duck”? (I just blogged about it yesterday.)
As far as Friendly Floatees go, the beavers must not be as friendly. Maybe it was the beavers who chewed their way out in the first place.
I wonder why this article didn’t mention the red beavers? A picture in the article shows them and this wiki article and other news articles mention them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees