Much of past 200 years of human habitation on St. Paul Island is tied to this animal, the northern fur seal. Rumors of vast rookeries in the far north eventually led to the discovery of these islands by Gavrill Pribylov in the 18th Century, and the rumors quickly proved to be true. Roughly 500,000 northern fur seals breed on the Pribilof Islands, representing half the the estimated world population, with a range that extends throughout the Bering Sea and down to Baja California in the east and the southern tip of Japan in the west. The beaches out here are slowly becoming congested with animals arriving for the start of the breeding season, their low growls and groans echoing across the island like mythical sea monsters.
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + 1.4x, ISO-400 f/5.6 @ 1/1250 sec.
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