| Porthole 08 Jul 22

A farmer in South Australia has found a baby seal (pictured) in a wheat crop, three kilometres from the ocean.

The closest seal colony to the crop, which is near Cowell on the Eyre Peninsula, is about 80 kilometres up the coastline.

The farmer’s family has been in the area for more than 60 years and has never seen a seal come this far inland, he said.

They said the seal looked skinny, but it was lucky to be alive, as foxes are common in the area.

The farmer put the three-foot seal’ in his truck and drove it to a beach, where he released it back into the sea.