Dolphin 'living alone for 30 years in Irish harbour' spotted leaping next to boat

Dolphin nicknamed Fungi, believed to have lived in Irish harbour alone for past 30 years, spotted within touching distance of a boat

A dolphin nicknamed Fungi, thought to have lived alone in an Irish harbour for the past 30 years, was photographed leaping within touching distance of a boat after chasing the vessel.

The image was taken by Mike Murphy, 45, after he managed to whip his iPhone out to capture a shot on the dolphin’s fourth leap in a row next to his boat as he returned from the seaweed farm he runs in Dingle Harbour in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland.

The dolphin is well-known among locals and popular with tourists, with boat tours organised for the sole purpose of spotting Fungi in the bay, where it is believed to have lived alone for 30 years.

David Millard, 45, who was with Mr Murphy when he took the photo on Monday afternoon, said: “The dolphin torpedoed next to us. He’s very playful. He will chase the boats around the harbour.

“There’s quite a tourist industry on the back of him, lots of Fungi boats that take tourists out, and he will follow the fastest boats.

“The most amazing thing is he was circling the boat, he goes at incredible speed.”

Mr Millard, 45, who works for the Irish Sea Fisheries Board, added: “If I had stuck my hand out, I could have touched him.

“I have seen him a couple of dozen times, but never in such close proximity. I have heard he can jump over the top of the boats. It was such an experience.”

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Story of the week

This week I have chosen a story about The Loch Ness Monster.

The Loch Ness monster, also called “Nessie”, is a creature that is supposed to live in Loch Ness, the largest lake in northern Scotland.  Since Roman times the legend of a mysterious sea creature has been alive through numerous sightings of the animal.

When the Romans came to Scotland in the first century the Picts were the main inhabitants.  They were fascinated by animals and spoke of a strange beast swimming in one of the lakes in the Scottish highlands. The first references go back to the sixth century when a man was supposedly saved from the swimming beast of Loch Ness.

Over the centuries the legend of the Loch Ness monster has never gone away. In the 1930s a new road was built along the shore of Loch Ness.  In 1933 , a couple who was driving along this road reported an enormous animal  splashing on the surface of the lake. In the following months newspapers sent reporters and photographers to the lake to make observations. Even footprints of an enormous animal were found.

In the following decades most scientists declared the sightings a fake and claimed that it was impossible for a dinosaur-like creature to have survived for millions of years. However, most of the people who went to Loch Ness were serious and honest and, for sure, were not interested in producing a scam.

Many books were written about the monster of Loch Ness. Several photographs made it to the front pages of the newspapers. The most famous photograph came from a British surgeon in 1934 . Robert Wilson, a London doctor, took a photo of a creature with a long neck that stood out of the water. In 1975 the Sunday Telegraph proved that this photo was fake.

As time went on investigation became more serious. Scientists from all over the world started coming to Loch Ness to investigate the phenomenon. The BBC and four universities led expeditions to the Scottish lake to find out more about the monster.  They were equipped with scientific instruments and machines that could be used in the deep water of the lake. Although the expeditions came up with no real results they did find out that something was moving in the lake , which they could not explain.

In 1975 an American-based expedition used underwater photography and special sonar to examine the Loch Ness.  The underwater camera was able to take images of a moving object that had flippers. Based on these photos some scientists concluded that the 20-foot long creature was possibly an ancient reptile that became extinct with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.

In the last three decades more sonar observations were made with even more advanced equipment. And still, they produced objects that could not be identified. Whether fact or fiction, Loch Ness has become a tourist attraction in northern Scotland, and even if there is no monster, the legend lives on.

Halloween Stories

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On Halloween we had a story telling session. We invented our own scary stories and told them to our classmates. They were scared stiff!

Read if you dare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A long time ago in a sweet and humble neighbourhood there was a little home in which a family lived. There were three people in the family; the mother, the father and a little and really beautiful daughter. Everything was normal until one day there was an accident and a terrible fire.

The daughter was upstairs and the parents were not in the house. They were working and they got enough money to pay a babysitter to take care of their daughter. So she was alone in the house and nobody heard her screams of horror as she was being burned. The house was finished, destroyed with the little daughter inside of it.

Afterwards this neighbourhood was a very affluent zone of the city. A family decided to by the land of the, ‘House of the Horror Screams’. They built a new house on there. Each night the dead daughter appeared in exactly the same place where she died but it was now in the living room of the house. But one day she appeared just like when she died, shouting horrible screams of pain that everybody in the house could hear. She told everybody that something horrible will happen. Two days later the house was burnt without any reason, killing every member of the family.

Now, nobody will build a house on there. Recently, the house has been built again and it’s ready to be bought. Would you like to the next?

By
Manuel Jose Varcarcel Dominguez, Luis Jose Morion Gil and Guillermo Alvarez Calvo.

If you are not too scared, read on for another hair-raising story!!!!

Once upon a time there was a man who worked in a shopping centre. He had a normal life but one day during his day he started to see himself doing other things that he wasn’t doing in the changing room’s mirror. He looked at the other side of the room and when he saw the mirror again he was still seeing himself. So he tried to leave the room but he couldn’t because the door was locked. Then the reflection of the mirror killed himself. The next day the shopping centre burned and a lot of people died. It was an enormous disaster but the mirrors of all the shopping centre were untouched. A new shopping centre was built there with everything new except the mirrors.

A new man started to work in the same place as the other man. He had a family and children. One day he saw, in one of the mirrors of the shopping centre, a handprint. He tried to clean it but he couldn’t. He was a bit scared so when he returned home he told his family. He started to be obsessed with the mirrors. He started to see himself burning in flames in the mirrors but he wasn’t really burning although he thought he was!

Suddenly, he saw a name written in the mirror. So he looked at the name and he discovered a mad woman that was in a convent.

The woman in the convent told him that her spirit had been trapped in the mirror. He helped her set her spirit free. In the end she was free and the mirrors went back to normal.

By

Erical Cardoso Gil, Marine Perez Jimenez and Alejandra Tamayo Gonzalez