Some Highlights from our 4 week trip to New Zealand and Australia.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Leopard Seal

The seal coming up the beach looked exhausted. The kind of exhausted you get after swimming all night through a storm, and filling your belly all day on stunned fish. Which is probably exactly what she'd been doing.

She was a Leopard Seal, the arch-hunter of the arctic seas, and a rare visitor to New Zealand. Her predatory smile is decorated with inch-long canines. But rolling on the beach in the lapping waves, she looked more cute then anything else.


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