Houseboats

I just love going down here. I mean, not only are seals your neighbourhood pets, but this is the view from your door. Sure you have to put up with the noise from tourists, put I couldn't help but drool a bit over the houseboat for sale...

Seals!

Yesterday, Chris and I spent our beautiful afternnon down at Fisherman's Wharf. It's a great spot-the place in town to look at funky houseboats, lots of boats, buy fresh right-off-the-boat fish and seafood, and eat some great food.

But the best thing we saw there yesterday was four spotted seals.





I love how when I was taking this photo, it felt like the seal was looking right into my eyes.

The claws on the front flippers.

This seal is named Ying-Yang. And yes he really does have two different coloured eyes. The colour is a bit off (tried to fix it up a bit but to no avail) because Yin-Yang was underwater at the time.

Some shots of their rear fins (sorry but I don't know the correct name) while they were underwater.

At one of the fish stores you can buy a container of fish of some sort to feed the seals. These are smart seals. They know if they hang around long enough they can pretty much eat to their hearts content. In fact, they will even come up to your hand to eat if you hold the fish out over the water.


These are some very large seals. You can tell that they love the tourists who feed them.