This is just one of those things that makes me smile: The Odyssey of the Rubber Duckies.

Several years ago, a container ship lost a load of duckies, turtles, frogs and beavers. They are turning up on beaches and oceanographers are using them as a way of tracking ocean currents.

I wonder how many of the oceanographers have one of the duckies as a mascot in their office? I'd love to have one, to look at and think about how far it had traveled.