Keiko must be pretty resilient. And my heart melts at the thought of him returning to his native wilds. And now it looks like it just might happen. Keiko is on the threshold of swimming free, or as his caretakers love to say, Keiko is on the verge of being reintroduced to the wild. I've even heard that scientists are taking genetic samples from pods of killer whales swimming around the Westman Islands in order to find his true family.
Blood is thicker than water.
Lord knows that type of information could be sold for top dollar to insurance companies trying to insure whales. In the day and age when millions can be spent rehabing a domesticated whale to the brink of returning to the wild, I imagine anything is possible. We've finally received a break from the wet weather that's been hounding Iceland for the past few days. Although the sky still looks like asphalt, the clouds have lifted some and a much greener Mt. Esja is now visible. According to the weather map in the newspaper, the rain should return today.