“I had 2 mates ring me, Sleepy and Donny. Sleepy says to Donny ‘look at this big fish’, and Donny starts to have a look, and he goes ‘that’s a seal, man’.”

Said angler Kai Barba, who, on Sleepy and Donny’s recommendation, took his boat out to find a long-nosed fur seal off the coast of Mackay in North Queensland. The creature who’s more at home in cooler waters has “had a very big swim”, an expert said…