Sunday, November 17, 2024

Sunny interlude

The sun came out over Tyee Spit. I stood at the northern tip for a good while, watching seals playing in the tidal current, surfacing to roll back into the water, sometimes silently, sometimes leaping far enough out of the water to come down with a splash, once a short stone's throw from the shore where I stood. Only once did I catch a splash on camera, and this was it; halfway across the channel.

South end of Discovery Passage, looking northeast. The splashing seal is behind the kayak.

A Skywatch post.
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Salió el sol. En la lengua de tierra, Tyee Spit, en el extremo al norte donde el rio entra al agua salada, me quedé un largo rato, observando las focas que jugaban en la corriente, fuerte en esos momentos con el cambio de dirección de la marea. Las focas subían a la superficie y se volvían a sumergir; a veces daban saltos al aire, cayendo con un buen chasquido acompañado de un gran salpicón de agua. Una foca saltó a escasos metros de donde yo estaba parada en la orilla del agua. Una sola vez logré capturar uno de estos saltos grandes con la cámara; y eso, bien lejos, en el centro del estrecho.

Foto: El pasaje "Discovery", mirando hacia el noreste. El salpicón que dejó la foca está atrás del kayak.

1 comment:

  1. Amazing that you can see the seals. Beautiful photo!!

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