Feeding the seals

There is a little marina tucked away in a beautiful neighborhood close to ours. If you visit there you will find a few residents that will put on a bit of a show for you if only you promise to feed them after.

Jakob loves visiting here. It is probably Victoria's best kept secret. At the marina's shop you purchase a small bag of frozen fish, and make your way down to the docks where there is always one seal keeping vigilant watch for little boys and girls holding clear plastic baggies of fish bits, and if they spy you they send our a special sealy call and before you know it another head pops out of the cold pacific waters, then another, and another, until suddenly there are a handful of seals barking and clapping and lolling about showing off their gluttonous bellies and adorable whiskers.

I don't know how they gain so much weight eating fish, but they do, and they wear it well.

Once the bag of fish is empty, the seals topped up and satisfied, there are a few token beaches around that are laden with rocks, and sticks ripe for throwing. My little boy? he never could resist a rock or a stick on a beach. He can throw for hours and never get tired. It is a very nice way to pass a beautiful afternoon for anyone, moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas, seals and little boys and girls alike.

*Thanks Nana for all the photos.