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48: BASE Jumping: Donuts
Aug 31, 2005

First to the ground… my money is on Wally.

Seal Cliff Jumping

Something I forgot to mention when the comic introduced the Weddell Seal yesterday… there actually is a cliff in Antarctica (perhaps even several unknown) with several seal corpses at the bottom. They weren’t base jumping though, not on purpose anyway, it is believed they got lost in a storm and the leader led them right off a cliff to their end. With the freezing temperatures, and no other animals around to clean the bones, or ants or anything, the corpses become mummified. It’s only the wind that eventually breaks them down after thousands of years. There are actually several locations of mummified seals and penguins, some thousands of years old, sometimes loners, that apparently lost their way, or took a wrong turn and went the opposite way of the ocean, perhaps during a bad storm. The further south or inland you get in Antarctica (closer to the pole), the colder and harsher it is.

Example of a petrified pinniped (seal) in the middle of nowhere:

13 Comments

  1. YUM YUM I LOVVVVE DONUTS!!!!!
    well, if i were in a senario like wally
    um..i wouldnt consider doing that… 😉

  2. bobo says:

    awkward nice.

  3. bobo says:

    probably not his best idea. 🙂

  4. axis says:

    a k w a r d !!!!!!!!

  5. I prefer strawberry,chocolate,vanilla,and holiday specials!

  6. person says:

    mmm i love donuts i would do what wally did

  7. crazycat12 says:

    if they are jelly filled hand one over

  8. hi guys says:

    EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hate jelly filled!

  9. Jenny says:

    Skydiving with donuts…Hmmm, Wally’s right. It DOES seem a little awkward.=/

  10. UNKNOWN says:

    If you go to this picture and the next one really, fast, it looks like the characters are moving.

  11. Osbourne says:

    How could Wally get donuts in such short notice?

  12. Sally says:

    Haw my money’s on Wally too

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