Seals are not very exciting.  Most of the seals we saw in Antarctica looked like rocks.  If I showed you all my pictures of seals, you’d wonder why I had so many pictures of rocks.  Every once in a while, one would move and everyone would start snapping pictures.  Very rarely one would flop from one place to another.  That was exciting for about a second.

One day we went to an island that had a lot of elephant seals.  They were juvenile and the males were practice fighting for a later year when they will fight, often to the death, to own the beach of female seals.  Their practice fighting was more exciting than rocks, but kind of like watching teenage boys burping.  The females were just rocks cuddling.  They lifted their head or scratched their belly sometimes.  We stayed a great distance from the males.  But this excitement waned for me after about 10 minutes.  The males are not the cute big-eyed seals either.  There’s nothing cute about the male elephant seal.  Nothing.  So, eventually we found some penguins and sat down to watch them.  Now this is excitement and entertainment.

We did see some Weddell seals and some fur seals here and there, but they were just different rocks on a different island.  If you didn’t like this blog, tough, go back one blog and look at penguins again.  That’ll fix you right up.