Taken from distance and cropped.

Big Sur California

Mother monk seal splashing through the waves on North Shore, Oahu

Seal on ice on New Years Day at Quidi Vidi Village waters

Puerto Egas, Santiago, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America

Cold water brings the seals to the bay.

With a zoom, so not as close as it looks. The mom leaves baby on the beach when they get tired, comes back for them later. State law makes it illegal to touch or interfere with seals on the beach and volunteers usually stand around and make sure that people don't get too close to baby.

Seal Ringing the Bell

Sea World in Orlando, FL 05/06

This injured seal was up on the rocks trying to rest and mend, taking advantage of the warm sun. After spending the entire day on the jetty rock, it slid back into the water once the tide came in. My last sight of it was as it was swimming out of the inlet toward the ocean.

During the day, I was in constant contact with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center experts in Brigantine NJ - and provided them with hi-res photos detailing the injuries for their analysis.

Elephant Seals of Piedras Blancas

Ortargo Penninsula NZ

A seal swims and watches... waiting for food?

Just seal it with a little squeeze. This belonged to my grandmother and emboses the seal of a sorority she was a member of. It reads: Women of Woodcraft, Anemone Circle No. 446, Cornelius Oregon,

Seals

211-Seals-Lolling around (4)

Elephant seals on the California Coast, near Hearst Castle

a seal in Eyemouth harbour

Mobile photo by Jennifer Bender

Male elephant seals have words with each other off the California coast.

Seals spend half their lives on shore. They rest and thermoregulate their body temperatures. Photo by Katie Campbell

Regal looking Fur Seal at Red Rocks, Wellington, New Zealand

More seals from Lopez Island's Shark Reef Sanctuary.

This guy made me laugh - so much beach to lie on and yet he just had to sqeeze in with the others!

A fur seal resting at Frank Kitts Park, Wellington

Cape fur seal, Cape Cross, Skeleton Coast, Namibia

Horsey Gap, Norfolk.

seal at Ecomare Texel NL

Not a native of NJ.... this seal made headlines.... and this image was published in the Ocean County Observer due to the rare nature of this animal's visit. Ultimately, Fish, Game and Wildlife Officers and Staff assisted this seal back to the waters on it's way back north.....

This was one of our colder landings.

Brown Bluff

January 2009

Sealed Knot at the Battle of Naseby 2008

Seals on rocks off Isle of Annet, Isles of Scilly, July 2012