[Bear_in_RoseBear]

This story reminds me of stories of pets who get lost or left behind when an owner moves, and then trek hundreds of miles to turn up months later on the owner's new doorstep. Almost enough to make one believe in animal ESP!

[Sam Cree]

What's amazing to me is that if Todd was swimming at two miles an hour, which in my view is a stretch, the swim would have taken five hours. I'm sort of wondering how he could swim 5 + hours (more likely seven or eight) and continue to maintain course. You have to imagine that he meandered some, yet he still made it from an offshore island into the mainland and up a river.