Of, relating to, or resembling seals.
When you're out for a winter paddle, and you're really hoping to see a seal, it's really amazing how many things there are out there that can resemble a seal. There are seal-shaped rocks, seal-shaped lobster pot markers, seal-shaped Clorox bottles, seal-shaped coconuts, all sorts of seal-shaped things.
Here, for example, we have a seal-shaped piling.
And here, by way of comparison, we have a seal-shaped seal.
See what I mean???
As I'd mentioned a couple of days ago, we had had a verified sighting of genuine seal-shaped seal out by Ruffle Bar the weekend I was out in PA, so I was seriously on the lookout for seals when we were out there on Saturday. Boy, did that piling ever have me fooled for a second! Just the right size, just the right color, and when I first saw it out of the corner of my eye, I was seriously fooled!
(Seal-shaped seal photo courtesy of Stevie. Thank you Stevie!)
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Bonnie, years ago when I lived with the Inuit in hunting camps, I was offered the chance to stalk a seal basking on the ice. I spent about half an hour slowly getting closer and closer to the seal and finally took a shot. Nothing seemed to happen. Thinking I'd got the seal, I got up and walked over to it. I'd just killed a garbage bag someone had left on the ice! The story of my kill passed around for the rest of the summer making me a 'hero' of sorts...
What a wonderful story!
Now, of course, I have to ask -
was it just a random garbage bag, or did your hunting companions play a little joke on you?
Good one either way. Those darned seal-shaped non-seals strike again!
So did you see any seal-shaped seals? (Is that your photo?)
BTW today is a day for groundhogma
No seals on Saturday. We did see tons of seals out at Jones Beach a couple of weeks ago, which was when Stevie got that picture. I was between cameras at that point.
I used to date a seal-shaped human. He had the mustache thing going on, too. And he liked herring.
What a mental picture! :D
Big brown eyes?
i like learning words like "phocine." it gives me goosebumps . . . er seal bumps. your post helps me recall seeing a buoy in the ice-choked merrimack 2+ decades backs and feeling sure it was a walrus. my head said i was nuts, but my gut was sure: walrus. i stopped relying much on my gut after that.
Pinniped is a good word, too. Or, in German (can't be bothered to go dig up the appropriate characters right now), Flossenfuessler.
That would cover Will's walrus-shaped buoy, too!
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