Interesting part is in August on our trip up in Port Hardy we saw one and it was big, at first I thought it was a small whale spy hoping. I got a poor image of the face but others in the group got better shots as it was a short meeting and I ran from top deck to my bunk to grab the camera.
Here is a link to Rand's image and I think Alex may also have one. I do not have mine posted up on my site yet.
Cool article Todd. Makes that sighting seem so exciting now.
Here is my photo. Taken at the same time as Rand's. Nothing that exciting.
Alex
Cool article Todd. Makes that sighting seem so exciting now.
It's fascinating to me how the circle of life keeps going around our wetpixelian world. The elephant seal is one of the great recovery stories of our time. They were down to fewer than a thousand animals in the early 1900"s and maybe many fewer than that. The biologists I've talked to believe that the last remaining rookery was on Guadalupe island off the Mexican coast where the last few healthy animals of their species hauled out. That small beach in the cove just inshore from where Alex was taking pictures of Great Whites earlier this year was their last hope. When we understand how close we came to loosing the species the sighting and the images are pretty spectacular.
By the way, thanks for the link to Rand's web site. I have somehow missed it up to now. He has some very special images there.
