A huge difference between the real sandgroper that I found in the pool this morning & what Channel 7 had us all believing was a sandgroper when I was growing up!!!
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In the 1970s, television station TVW Channel 7 in Perth, Western Australia released a stuffed toy sandgroper for sale named "Sunny The Sandgroper", with proceeds going towards Telethon. "Sunny Sandgroper" was then used as a regular character, along with Fat Cat and Percy P Penguin, in TVW-7's 'Earlybirds' morning children's show. West Australians have been known colloquially as sandgropers, with references to the name being found as early as the 1890s
