A struggling iguana gets a ride home

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/20/kayaker-saves-life-lost-iguana-swimming-four-miles-sea/

 

“I was coming in from an offshore trip and I noticed a weird shaped object floating in the distance,” he explained.

“All I could see were the multiple fins running down its back so I thought it was some sort of palm frond, but it just didn’t look right. I ended up stopping and noticed that it started swimming.”

The kayaker believes the iguana may have died if he hadn’t bumped into it, explaining, “I have seen plenty swimming around the islands, but never one that far out.

“Most likely, because of the king tides that are occurring it got caught in one of the swift outgoing tides and got pushed out to sea. I was just inside the reef so it was close to four miles from land.