Holidaymaker Adam Wright had the surprise of his life when he spotted a kangaroo hopping along the road between Hessenford and Seaton. Adam was with his girlfriend Sarah and her parents, who live near Hessenford, on their way to the beach last Saturday when they spotted the mystery marsupial emerging from the woods alongside the road. 'It was about five yards in front of us slowly zig- zagging along the road – all four of us saw it and then it turned and looked at us before disappearing back into the woods to the right of the road,' said Adam, who lives in the Midlands. 'We were in a jeep-type vehicle and its head was above the level of the bonnet so I would estimate it was between four and five feet tall and that it was definitely a kangaroo rather then a wallaby,' he said this week. 'It had a white stripe down the centre of its nose.' Ann Robinson, Adam's girlfriend's mother, confirmed the sighting, although she was less certain as to whether it was a roo or a wallaby. 'It was certainly one or the other – Adam was sure it was a kangaroo. It could have been heading towards the river for a drink,' she said. Caradon council's animal welfare officer Checkie Taylor said that she, too, had received a report of a similar sighting on Monday morning in Seaton Valley Country Park. She declined to name the witnesses but was able to confirm that it was not Adam and his friends. Checkie said that from the information provided she was convinced it was a wallaby, examples of which are known to roam the countryside in other parts of Britain. 'We walked the park from end to end on Tuesday without seeing any sign of one but there is plenty of potential wallaby country out there. It is quite possible one could be living there without having been seen before,' she said. Escapes Joy Palmer, from the Porfell Wildlife Park near Herodsfoot, said she had heard of the sighting and was able to confirm that the creature was not one of theirs, and that she was unaware of any escapes locally. But she pointed out that wallabies are not covered by the dangerous wild animals legislation and, indeed, are now classed as a British wild animal because of the numbers at liberty up-country. Red and grey kangaroos, and Tasmanian Devils, are covered by the act. Joy said: 'You don't need a licence to keep wallabies, so it is possible one could have escaped from private ownership locally and if it was not reported, no-one would know. 'This one could have been out there for months!' l The Cornish Times' report last week on the 'dust devil' in the Looe Valley has prompted a plea from the Cornwall UFO Research Group for more eye- witness reports, following a call to them from a Duloe family who reported seeing disc-shaped objects hovering in the sky on the same day, Tuesday. Dave Gillham, of the Truro-based group, said three people reported seeing seven discs criss-crossing each other.