Tuesday 15 March 2011

Eelvis has left the building!

Being the actual headline of the article I was sent last week.  All my talk of eels had reminded Mark at Water Weights in Great Yarmouth that last year they had helped relocate a five year old male from the Macduff Marine Aquarium in Banffshire, North East Scotland, back to the North Sea using one of their bags (a borrowed crane, and a great deal of patience).  The aquarium  had named him Eelvis - after the flurry of excitement that established a concrete link between the 18th Century Pressleys of Lonmay, Aberdeenshire, and the Presleys of Tupelo six generations later.




















Eelvis as a young man

(image from www.macduff-aquarium.org.uk)