Showing posts with label seal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seal. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Yawn

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This charming seal, who lives at the National Seal Sanctuary in Gweek, adequately expresses how I felt after my exams were over. And indeed, even though it has been very nearly a week since my last exam, I still wish that I were a chubby seal, lounging on a ledge in the sunshine and being fed copious amounts of fish in return for, well, just being a seal.

Of course, my photo supplies are running low and soon this blog will be plunged into wintry darkness as I take endless photos of glasses of sherry. Not because they're an ideal subject for keen photographers everywhere, but because I like sherry, and once I've poured it out for a photo opportunity, it would be a waste not to drink it. Recently, whilst travelling the London tubular system, I came across an article suggesting that the redoubtable Downton Abbey is responsible for a sudden resurgence in sales of sherry, but I disagree. I'm pretty sure the reason sherry is becoming fashionable again is all down to my efforts to force everyone I know to drink it wherever possible.

Friday, 11 November 2011

Seal Your Fate

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Another fine specimen from the Gweek Seal Sanctuary! Can't remember if he's a grey seal or a common seal or a different kind of seal altogether, but he (or, in fact, she) certainly is a seal and I'm sticking with what I know. And a speckled seal, at that!

Sunday, 16 October 2011

Snooty

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This fine fellow is a South African Fur Seal, aka Brown Fur Seal, aka Cape Fur Seal, aka Arctocephalus Pusillus, and he lives at the National Seal Sanctuary in Gweek, Cornwall. It has a hideous website but is actually a pretty cool place. If you like seals. If you do not like seals, it is hell on earth.

Fortunately I do like seals greatly, so I had a whale* of a time. Cape fur seals like the one in the above photo are a protected species now in South Africa; sadly the pups are still killed in huge numbers elsewhere in Namibia for their fur (hence the name).

Elsewhere in Gweek you can buy Seal Sanctuary Wine, but rest assured that this is not made out of seals but is in fact the normal kind from grapes, with a picture of a seal on the front.


* Or insert-water-dwelling-mammal-of-your choice