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Fishermen and mushroom watchers hope that a change in the southwest wind could bring the famous bottlenose back to Dingle Harbor.
Now he has been “missing” from the area for almost a week.
Mushroom watchers since 1991, Jeannine Masset and Rudi Schamhart, who raised the alert on Thursday, said “it’s really very difficult for everyone.”
“Needless to say, we are heartbroken but also exhausted because we haven’t slept for four days,” they wrote on their ‘Fungie Forever’ Facebook page.
They received some criticism for raising the alarm, but now most Fungie watchers have accepted the seriousness of the situation and Dolphin tour boats and other boats are searching.
In addition to search, they have been responding to hundreds of messages.
They alerted Tom Hand, Mary and Mike O’Neill of Dingle Boat Tours, who took them on a long search to places they couldn’t go with their own small boat.
His last photo of Fungie was posted on Saturday, October 10, and one from the day before shows him taking a shortcut near the harbor cliffs.
They also reported that they believed he looked tired on October 7. “It was very clear the last few weeks that Fungie was tired of the high season. All their behavior showed it ”, they say.
Jimmy Flannery of Dingle Sea Seafari Tours, a founding member of the fishing group that established the Fungie Tours in 1989, said that in his 33 years leading trips to Fungie, four to five hours a day, this “is the most he can do. he has lost in 37 years of being in Dingle ”.
Flannery said he believes the “east wind” is a factor as it is always less active at such times.
He also believes that there is abundant food outside the port at the moment and that Fungie may have been out to eat.
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