Paddleboarder discovers luxury car submerged near Bear Grylls' private island
A paddleboarder has found a luxury car submerged in the sea off the coast of Wales and the locals have found it immensely funny.
The people of Abersoch, North Wales were left laughing when an £80,000 Land Rover Discovery was found completely submerged, with the silver car stuck underwater with a red tow rope fixed to the back.
Whether the car had been trying to tow something behind it or if it had been fitted in an attempt to rescue the Rover from the rolling Welsh waves is a mystery.
Abersoch, sometimes referred to as 'Cheshire-on-Sea' because of the rich visitors, isn't far from Bear Grylls' private island which is located just a couple of miles away from the sunken Land Rover.
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The car had been spotted on the beach at 7:30am on Sunday (3 May) shortly before high tide by a paddleboarder, and she asked her husband who was out walking the dog to fire up a drone and take pictures of it as the water rose higher and higher until the beached vehicle was completely submerged.
She then went in for a closer look on her paddleboard once the Land Rover was entirely under.
Abersoch.com confirmed that by 10am that morning the car was completely underwater.
While the owner of the Land Rover is probably not having a great time the locals have been having a good laugh at the stricken car.
Someone said that since it was the Bank Holiday weekend it was 'silly season' and they were used to seeing tourists who didn't know not to leave their very expensive car on the beach getting into all sorts of trouble.
"When will the bloody tourists learn," they said.
Another said the submerged Land Rover was 'not the first and it won't be the last', while others piled in with the usual 'can't park there' jokes and mocked the car as a 'Chelsea tractor'.
However, others were a bit more sympathetic to whomever owned the car, since getting it entirely submerged was probably not in the driver's plans for the weekend.
Someone said the Land Rover 'probably gave the driver a sense of security that it can go anywhere - we all know it can't', and said even if lots of people found the predicament funny they should 'still feel a little sorry for his loss'.
Another wrote: "Very sad to see that something went wrong. See many cars go into the sea to retrieve boat trailers, and you know that car will be rotten very soon afterwards.
"You also see people who use their nous and use long ropes to pull out the trailer before hitching and not getting wet. But you can never account for sand shift or sink - and it's a risk you take. There's a reason why old tractors are used."
Unfortunately for the driver it's been, as one commenter put it, a 'very expensive weekend' indeed.
Joe Harker