Seal Island

Seal Island

Duiker island is a small island in Hout Bay. It is famous for its numerous seals and gulls. Another is Seal Island in the sea of Okhotsk.

South African Seal Island, originally known as Decker Island, is a small reef island in Hout Bay on the Atlantic side of Cape Town, only a few hundred meters away from the coast. There are thousands of square meters around the island at most, all of them are bare stones. Every summer, the island is full of seals standing or lying on the ground. It is said that there are thousands of seals in the dark area. In order to protect these animals, tourists can only take a sightseeing boat to see the seals from a distance, instead of going to Shanghai leopard island.

Introduction to seal Island

Tyuleniy, a small island in the sea of Okhotsk, is located at 48 ° 30 ′ n 144 ° 39 ′ e, 19 km south of jalpenya, Southeast of Sakhalin Island. It's uninhabited. The island is 1.6 km long and 850 m wide. It is one of the largest habitats for seals in the North Pacific.

According to the report in 1985, there are nearly 10000 seals on Duiker Island, most of them are male. However, the island is not an ideal breeding place because of the sharp rocks on the island, and the young seals are easy to be injured or die. The peeling period is from January to March. Therefore, the island is full of seals at this time, and no one is willing to go into the water to eat during the peeling period.

Seal Island is a long reef group, the area is about three football fields. Thousands of seals flock to the reefs every day, and the local fishermen also spontaneously protect these animals, creating unique conditions for their breeding. As a result, Seal Island will eventually become an excellent place for seals to breed and live, and also a good place for tourism in South Africa.

sth. extraordinarily interesting

It's a pleasure to take a cruise to seal island and enjoy the wonderful ecology of seal community.

Seal Island is a reef island in Cape Town Bay. It is located in Haute Bay. When the ship stops at

When I was near a lonely island in the sea, I couldn't believe my eyes: there were large black floating objects on the sea around the island. At first, I thought they were floating plants. When I looked closer, I found that they were countless seal heads. Seals are magnificent, some rolling in the water playing, some are enjoying a comfortable sunbath in the sun. They are not big, but they always like to hold their heads high and huddle together. Although they climb from the water to the rock clumsily, the sound is like a pig's roar, in fact, all of them are good hunters. They can see and listen in all directions in the water, and the speed can reach 28 kilometers per hour. When diving, it comes to the surface every 30 minutes to breathe. On Cape Peninsula, you can go to seal island by yacht to watch the lively and funny groups of seals and the huge African penguins beside Simon town. They are not only wild, but also show their ecology of foraging, feeding and breeding without reservation. It's very cute. It's never cold. Spring is also a good season for whale watching in South Africa. The spectacular water column of South right whales along the half bird coast of Cape is very lively. For lunch, enjoy a cape lobster meal from the Atlantic Ocean at the seaside restaurant, and enjoy the natural blue coast of Cape Peninsula.

Little seal

It is said that the average life span of seals is about 20 years, and there are more than 30 groups and species. The male does not eat during mating, and only relies on body fat to maintain; the female begins to get pregnant at the age of 4, and has one baby for one year. In eight or nine months, the seal will be able to swim north along the coast to Namibia's Cross Bay, 1600 nautical miles away.

characteristic

There are about 35 kinds of seals in the world. They are cute, smart and interesting. Their hearing is better at the bottom of the water than at the surface

Keen to identify the direction of sound, eyes can see things in the water. When diving, close your ears and nostrils and stop breathing temporarily. Even if you sleep in the water, the little seal will come out of the water every 15 minutes to breathe, and the big seal will come out every 30 minutes

When a female seal is about four years old, she conceives for the first time. The male seal only starts to be in estrus when she is eight to twelve years old. The mating period is between November and February every year. During the mating period, the male seal is too busy to eat because she is busy sowing seeds. She only lives on the fat stored on her body. It takes about a year from conception to birth, and it is usually a single birth. When a young seal is one and a half months old, she can get married When they are seven months old, they can swim in the sea for two or three days by themselves, or they can swim far. Many eight month old seals swim from Cape Town to Namibia cross Bay, which is 1600 kilometers one way.

Seals eat fish, squid and crustaceans. They usually hunt on the surface of the water. They rarely dive deeper than 36 meters, and can swim at a speed of 38 kilometers an hour. Seals live for about 20 years. Males can weigh 350 kilograms, about two and a half meters long. Females rarely grow more than one meter seven, and weigh only 113 kilograms.

Travel

In order to protect the seal habitat, tourists are forbidden to go to the island. There is a special yacht at the wharf to take tourists to watch, and walk around the island very close, so that tourists can watch the seals' hunting, water playing and habitat in close range. It's a rare experience to take a boat (part of the cabin bottom is transparent glass bottom, which can provide a rare and real underwater life of seals) to this island to watch the ecological activities of thousands of seals, seagulls and other seabirds. If you are lucky, you may also see rare white sharks, or even their hunting of seals.

The coast is only ten minutes away from Seal Island. When you come to the side of Seal Island, due to the influence of the waves, you can see some seals stretching and lying on the side of the island, some walking with their heads raised, some walking at the edge of the water, and some rushing to the water. If the boat is closer to the island, visitors can hear the roar of a seal pig.

They feed on fish and swim very fast in the water, up to 28 kilometers per hour. As long as the general fish are found by them, most of them will soon become belly food. When a seal dives, he closes his ears and nostrils tightly and holds his breath. It's like sleeping in the water. The young seal comes to the surface every 15 minutes to breathe, while the big seal only shows his head every 30 minutes.

Address: 8 Haibin Road, Penglai, Yantai

Longitude: 120.7766414919

Latitude: 37.8254349434

Ticket information: no ticket required. Included in the ticket of Baxian cross the sea scenic spot.

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