Nov. 18, 2025

Sea Lion blocks the road

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Johnny Mac shares five feel-good news stories including a kite surfer in New Zealand finding a long-lost surfboard from Tasmania, which traveled 1500 miles. An Austrian surfer breaks a world record, surfing for over eight hours on a manmade wave. A 1916 message in a bottle is discovered in Australia, leading to a reunion with soldiers' descendants. A dog missing for seven years is reunited with its owner after a burglary. Lastly, a sea lion causes a traffic delay but is safely returned to its river by wildlife rescuers.

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Kalaroga Shark Media yikes on this first one him Johnny

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Mack with five good news stories. It started out as

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a bad day for a kite surfer, turned out into

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a miracle. Alvaro was out kite surfing off the coast

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of New Zealand. His kite got caught in the water

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and dragged him out to sea. He let it go.

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He paddled toward the shore, figuring that was enough for

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the day, and then he saw something lying on the sand.

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A surfboard, not just any surfboard. He flipped it over.

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It was covered in barnacles and mussels. He said, it's

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not the kind we use around here every day. He

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scraped off a few shells. He saw the name Liam

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etched underneath. He took the surfboard home. He posted some

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photos online. A few days later, he got a message

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from Liam. Liam was a surfer who lost the board

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off the coast of Tasmania back in May. That's fifteen

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hundred miles away. Liam couldn't believe it, he told Alvarro

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it was one of his favorite boards. Experts say the

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board may have drifted across the Tasman Sea via the

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East Australian current that, by the way, is the same

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current that carried Nemo's dad and Dory in finding Nemo. Meanwhile,

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an Austrian surfer, not an Australian surfer and Austrian surfer,

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spent eight hours, five minutes and forty four seconds on

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his board to break the Guinness World Record for longest

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time spent surfing a wave. He did this at River Wave,

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using a man made wave that uses currents from nearby

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rivers to create a permanent surfing wave in Austria no breaks.

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He used a spoon to eat a cup of soup

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while continuing to surf. He destroyed the old record, which

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was three hours, fifty five minutes two seconds that was

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done by a guy in the Panama Canal. I guess

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you can't do this in the ocean, right the waves

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don't last for hours and hours. Let's keep it on

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the beach. A message in a bottle washed up off

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Wharton Beach, Australia. Deborah and her family were cleaning up

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the beach picking up some trash. Her daughter spotted an

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old glass bottle in the sand. Inside two letters dated

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nineteen sixteen, signed by soldiers Malcolm and William. Malcolm's letter

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said he was from Wilka Watts, South Australia. Using Facebook,

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Deebra managed to track down his family, including his great

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nephew Herbie. Herbie said, it's been amazing how much has

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come to the surface in a short time. In WW one,

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Malcolm was twenty eight and killed during the war in France,

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months after tossing the bottle into the sea. They also

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found the descendants of the other soldier, William, who did

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make it home from the war. His granddaughter Anne said,

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we're all absolutely stunned. There five grandchildren who are still alive.

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Do you feel very much like our grandfather has reached

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out to us from the grave. Experts say the bottle

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might not have spent one hundred and nine years at sea.

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They think it likely floated for a few weeks before

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washing up nearby, where it could have been buried in

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the sand for a century. A dog was reunited with

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its owner after seven years. The dog had gone missing

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during a burglary. Yeah Gabrielle at Her dog Luca, went

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missing after she arrived home from work at four am

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and found her front door had been kicked in by

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a burglar. The dog was gone too. Officer Bishops bought

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at a friendly pop wandering alone. As soon as he

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opened the patrol car door, a Lucas jumped in, knowing

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he was saved. Luke was taken to the local vet.

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They scanned the microchip they found the owner, which told

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Lucas still loves his favorite snack, strawberries and peanut butter.

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All right, John, why we are laid for work this time? Well, yeah,

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sea boss. I was driving there along the road and

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then in the middle of the road there was a

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sea lion. The Cosmopolis Police Department set on social media

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that a large friend, as they phrased it, was spotted

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loitering in traffic on Blue Slough Road during heavy rains.

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They called in the Department of Fish and Wildlife. They

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were like, hey, there's a sea lion on the road.

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What are we supposed to do here? The rescuers were

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able to haze the sea lion out of the road

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and back into a river. Experts say sea lions are

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known to visit land for numerous reasons, including resting, avoiding predators,

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and regulating their body temperature and those that your five

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good news stories for today have a good one.