Always nice to start the week off with a seal face. This particular face happens to belong to a harbor seal. Harbor seals can be very curious and they tend to follow behind kayakers in Elkhorn Slough — just north of Monterey, California — where I took this photo. As soon as you turn around, however, they often dive beneath the surface. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 500, f/5.6 at 1/250th of a second
Awh…you have to love that face and those whiskers! I noticed the same kind of behavior from the harbor seals when visiting Machais Seal Island in Maine last summer. They were sunning on the nearby Gull Rock. Some of them would pop their heads out of the water to inspect who was on the boat.
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great pic. they some times act like kids and like play games with you.
love this! Love the ripples on the water, you can tell how curious they are by the look on this guy’s face! Great one!
Dogs of the sea. What a face.
Awh…you have to love that face and those whiskers! I noticed the same kind of behavior from the harbor seals when visiting Machais Seal Island in Maine last summer. They were sunning on the nearby Gull Rock. Some of them would pop their heads out of the water to inspect who was on the boat.