Land Ho! The ducks are washing ashore

A couple of years ago, listening to NPR, I heard the story of thousands of rubber ducks floating in the open oceans and helping researchers learn about the great ocean currents. I don’t know why, but the idea of a flotilla of rubber duckies roaming the oceans made me happy. On a stormy night in January 1992, 29,000 ducks, manufactured in China and bound for the United States were washed overboard in the eastern Pacific. Since then, they have floated for 17,000 miles. Part of their journey included moving a mile a day in the Arctic ice. According to oceanographer, Curtis Ebbesmeyer, the duckies are going to wash up on the shore of southwest England. The Daily Mail has the story.