An adventurous Arctic walrus made himself at home lounging on boats in an island harbor off the English coast, 75 miles southwest of Cornwall.
The large aquatic mammal, dubbed Wally, has been known to migrate to various shores over the years—from Spain to Ireland to England—and was recently spotted at St. Mary’s Harbor on the Isles of Scilly, where he found the perfect spot to hang out and kick off the summer solstice.
Wally’s visit to the most populated island in the English archipelago was met with mixed reactions.
In a bid to find the best place to lounge, he ended up capsizing a number of smaller boats. The walrus was even captured on camera in a standoff with one boat owner, who eventually had to cede his vessel to the massive tusked mammal.
Many of the tourists, however, were thrilled by the sight of Wally the walrus, nevertheless.
“Wally paid the upgrade to first class,” Pender joked in caption with a photo of the mammal basking on the rear deck of a yacht.
“Wally’s found a new home this evening,” he wrote in another post of Wally.
Pender said he was preparing to sail when he received a call saying Wally was trying to haul himself onto some of the boats in the harbor.
The seafarers, although amazed by the mammal’s grand presence, did their best to encourage Wally to spend his leisure time elsewhere.
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