Sealions, much like penguins, look comical and clumsy while on land, but in water, they’re nothing but sleek grace.
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Your photos capture just how graceful he is in the water. Those are some beautiful lines he makes when breaching the water. I can’t help but laugh, though, at his whiskers.
Beautiful pictures. Sea lions are very lively creatures.
Sea lions are also a great example of extant “transitional” life form. When I was still trying to argue with people on the internet, I got into an argument with a creationist once who insisted that legs could not evole from fins, because a half leg/half fin would be useless. After I have shown him picture of a sea-lion and a mudskipper in response he shut up and left.
That sea-lions are transitioning the other direction (from leg to flipper) is irrelevant.
Good old friends of mine! There used to be a small colony of them who would rest in the beach in front of the harbor of Rawson, and sometimes they would cross to the other side and you could get pretty close to them (close enough to touch them, if you were reckless enough). Unfortunately, I haven’t seen them in years. I’m not sure why they moved, though I suspect it’s due to increased human presence and urbanization in the area.
Beautiful pictures indeed. It seems the sealion can do the jumping without making a huge splash.
Slinky.
:D Lofty found the word I was looking for last night.
And the whiskers are the best. What a ‘stache! Very stylish.
When C and I were first married, we used to go to Seal Beach Jetty, California, build a small fire, and cook a dinner on the sand. At 11:00 PM, they closed the beach. We didn’t want to leave, so we would put out our fire, and climb the tip of the Jetty. It is a 100 or so, foot tall, outcrop of rock at the junction of earth and sea, still defying the sea. When we climbed down on the Jetty (Inlet to the harbor) side, we discovered sand floored caves, just above water line, with Harbor Seals inside. We made friends with them, and visited them every two weeks or so during the summer.
2 summers we did this, until we moved too far away from there to get back to visit the seals.
Thanks for the good memories, I had nearly forgotten these very early times, when we were young, nubile, and very exploratory.