Graptolite - Meets the Locals
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Sat 1 Mar 2008 23:00
Today we got up close and personal with the local wildlife. A trip out to
Kicker Rock had us swimming with sharks and turtles. On the way back we swam
with sealions and marine iguana.
The sealions are probably the most fun. On the beach they are smelly, noisy
and ungainly. But none of those things in the water. The beach near the
anchorage is thick with sealions and given half a chance they climb up on
the boats at anchor for a spot of sunbathing or sit behind the wheel and
pretend to be sailing. The local boat-owners have to put barbed-wire up to
keep them out of the cabins.
I can't think of much that is nice to say about marine iguana. We don't have
much in common with them and conversation is difficult. It's probably
because we mammals are so much further along with this evolution thing.
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