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Lazy Australian fur seals #1. The Friars, south of Bruny Island, Tasmania. September 2013. Wordless Wednesday. Lazy Australian fur seals #2. The Friars, south of Bruny Island, Tasmania. September 2013. Lazy Australian fur seals #3. The Friars, south of Bruny Island, Tasmania. September 2013. Lazy Australian fur seals #4. The Friars, south of Bruny Island, Tasmania. September 2013. Lazy Australian fur seals #5. The Friars, south of Bruny Island, Tasmania. September 2013.

Australian Fur Seal, Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney. September 2012. This Sunday Top Five I thought that I'd share with My Top Five Favourite Words That Rhyme With 'KNOW'! Beau Dough Faux Schmo Woe

Flipper, is that you? Melbourne Zoo, Melbourne. April 2011. The seventh seal? Kiss from a rose? United States Navy SE a, A ir and L and team members?' Andre? Seals and Croft? Australian Fur Seal or Kelpie without legs? Melbourne Zoo, Melbourne. April 2011. Something or other...

Here’s Henry enjoying the view of the seals at play. Lest you feel that I’m denying my beautiful boy his rightful place in the sun with such a dark photograph, here’s one taken of him in the sun , mounted atop a seal like Jim Pike on Phar Lap. Incidentally, if you’re a fan on similarly geographically-specific and incredibly dated analogies, I do a fine line in Napoleonic-era glassblowers set against 1980s Essendon footballers…

Seal at play #1. Melbourne Zoo, April 2011. As I might have mentioned previously, we’ve just spent Easter in Melbourne. One of the delights that we took in during our stay was the zoo. Of all the animals on display, I particularly liked the seals Seal at play #2. Melbourne Zoo, April 2011. We got a good look at the Australian Fur Seals , from both above and below. Seal at play #3. Melbourne Zoo, April 2011. It’s a large display, with plenty of space for the critters to swim about the place, in both sun and shade (hence the different tones of the photographs). Seal at play #4. Melbourne Zoo, April 2011. If you do find yourself in Melbourne, and enjoy watching animals at play, you could do worse than a day at the zoo!