QUIRKY WORLD ... Sailor woken by snoring did not find friend just crashing

USA:  A sailor who was woken by snoring found a baby sea lion asleep on a bunk in his boat.

Michael Duffy was on his 41ft (12.5m) Kettenburg boat Elixir at San Diego Yacht Club when he awoke. Hearing snoring and sneezing, he thought it might be a friend crashing after a night out, but could not find anybody. Once it got light, he heard it again, and that is when he found a 16kg sea lion pup on another bunk, curled up like a dog on top of his board shorts.

“It was a tiny little guy, and I was kind of shocked, but he was basically asleep,” Mr Duffy said. “Then he heard me coming, so he kind of looked up a little bit like when a dog is sleeping and you want to wake it up and it doesn’t want to wake up.”