1-25-06 More seal pictures
We took a trip to the fishin' holes by snowmobile again. When we
got there we found a Weddell seal peeking out of one of our two
holes.
We stayed back to avoid disturbing the seal, and shot a few pictures. Atone point the seal came up with a large chunk of fish in its mouth, sothe hunting must have been good today.
When a Weddell finds a hole in the ice, it spends a lot of time maintaining the hole to keep it from freezing. They use the holes to get a breath of air after long dives and for hauling out onto the snow. This seal had scraped away quite a bit of ice from around the underside of our fishing hole, so we decided to leave the hole to seal instead of re-capping the hole. We pulled up the rest of our gear from the second hole at the site and bid the seal a good day.
We stayed back to avoid disturbing the seal, and shot a few pictures. Atone point the seal came up with a large chunk of fish in its mouth, sothe hunting must have been good today.
When a Weddell finds a hole in the ice, it spends a lot of time maintaining the hole to keep it from freezing. They use the holes to get a breath of air after long dives and for hauling out onto the snow. This seal had scraped away quite a bit of ice from around the underside of our fishing hole, so we decided to leave the hole to seal instead of re-capping the hole. We pulled up the rest of our gear from the second hole at the site and bid the seal a good day.
posted by Luke Miller at 10:45 PM 
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