Seal

[guppiecat]

In the winter before this trip, the diving companies advertised as “swim with the seals”. In the spring, this changed to “swim”, because apparently tourists were harassing the local wildlife. While we did allow the curious ones to get as close as they wanted, I am glad to say that we did not break a single seal.

So Canada’s warranty is still intact.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Comments

[minnehaha]

It was a really beautiful place, too!

K.

[guppiecat]

Yeah. I expected it to be pretty, but I didn't expect it to be THAT pretty.

Really glad we went.

[dreamshark]

How many seals took an interest in you? They are rather curious creatures, but not nearly as curious as Stellar sea lions. Were there any of those around?

[guppiecat]

They're hard to count, as the keep diving and reappearing, but I'd say that we maxed out at about 20 of them following and peering at us.

No sea lions on this trip.

[dreamshark]

What fun! I'll bet there weren't actually a lot of complaints from the seals about the original "swim with the seals" verbiage. They obviously found the tourists highly entertaining.