Just read this on The Register. How real it is, I don’t know. But it’s one the the bizarrest things I’ve ever heard. Basically, a shipping container of 30,000 yellow plastic ducks as lost during a storm in the mid-pacific back in 1992. Most of the ducks went south and washed up in Australia. But about 10,000 headed north on a (currently) 15 year adventure. The floated around the north pacific for a few years and ended up in the Arctic. Here they became frozen in pack ice as they moved into the atlantic. During this ordeal they’ve been bleached white.
The ice has thawed and some have washed up in the Hebrides (2003). An American has been tracking their journey and has said that they may end up washing up on British beaches. The west country will start to see them first.
Apparently they’ve been known to fetch up to £500 on eBay. I only hope my mum finds them when walking the dog. I know she reads this, so take note!
UPDATE: The company that produced them is apparantly offering £50 for each one found!
Note: The image shown here does not represent the actual ducks
