Heavy morning fog. The ship drops anchor about 10:30 AM. With breakfast over we hear sounds of Zodiacs being lowered into the water, adventure time once the fog lifts.
Tyuleniy (Russian for 'seal') Island was somewhere out there, a very small island, 700 meters in length.
Tyuleniy (Russian for 'seal') Island was somewhere out there, a very small island, 700 meters in length.
At 11:30 AM we land on this tiny island to view the wildlife that gathers here during the Summer, yes it was Summer despite a lot of snow and ice still around......400 Steller sea lions and thousands of northern fur seals are waiting for us.
Sea lions and fur seals.
Visitors coming..........a good scratch and
brush up........
....then time to snooze yet again.
Slaty-backed Kittiwakes by the thousands were nesting on the cliffs along with thousands more
Guillemots (resembling penguins but are a species of the Auk family), and Cormorants.
The small dilapidated, and now unused, research station was also
used in the hunting of northern fur seals by the native Ainu people, then the Japanese and Russians.
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