Lobo junior

In mid-June, Bondi will be gaining a new little brother, pictured above at 5 weeks of age. I don't expect he will grow to anywhere near Bondi's size (more a function of long legs than bulk), but then again Bondi was the runt of his litter.

Of course I've been hard at work looking for an appropriate name. I have a number of candidates, which do not include other Sydney beach names like Coogee, Bronte, Tamarama or Seven Shillings.

Current favourites are:

• Iorek: Iorek Byrnison - polar bear from Philip Pullman's stories


• Inari: Lake in northern Finland shown in the blog header above
  


• Gelert: Dog from the Welsh Mabinogion


• Orinoco: Womble at large


• Helo (Halo): character from the new series of Battlestar Galactica


• Taliesin (Tally): Welsh. "Radiant brow"


• Kuruk: Native American. "Bear"


• Gelar: Aboriginal. "Brother"


• Cuán: Irish. "Little wolf"


• Nuka: Greenlandic. Younger sibling.


• Munson: Famous Ealing comedy filmed in shades of brown.

I've added a poll in the right hand margin for you to vote. You may check multiple boxes. Other suggestions may be posted as comments or sent to the email address shown, and then if I like them sufficiently, I'll add them to the poll.