Look What These Fishermen Found Drowning In The Lake

Fishermen Craig Wilson and his stepfather Bob Wilton thought they were having a normal and relaxing day. They were heading out to fish on Woods Lake in Tasmania when they noticed something in the distance they thought to be a platypus which is already used to swimming. But after a while, and as they got closer, they realized it wasn't a platypus but a wombat!

Wombats are short-legged creatures with small, stubby tails native to Australia. They are adaptable and are tolerant of their habitat, and are mostly found in forested, mountainous and heath land areas of south-eastern Australia. Wombats generally move slowly.

More than 800 feet offshore, the two fishermen found the poor wombat struggling to stay afloat.

"It was fairly windy and fairly choppy out on the water and we were just looking for a place along the foreshore to get out of the wind," Mr. Wilton told 936 ABC Hobart.

Wilton said he had no idea how the wombat ended up so far from the shore but he did not appear to be injured.