Cheeky seal pups Porridge and Waffles will tomorrow be swapping their five star accommodation at Tynemouth Aquarium for the inhospitable North Sea.
The duo have been nursed back to health by volunteers at the Tynemouth Seal Hospital based at the aquarium and are now ready to be returned to the wild.
The grey seal pups arrived at the hospital last November underweight and injured. But following three months of tender love and attention the female pups will on Saturday be released back into the water at St Mary’s Island in Whitley Bay.