A seal checks out the boat we used to visit Noorderhaaks. Noorderhaaks is perhaps better known as De razende Bol. Noorderhaaks, meaning the Raging Bol, is an uninhabited sandbank between Den Helder and Texel, on which seals are always resting and sleeping. They live and stay there. They even lie there often enough for excursions to be set out there from Oudeschild on Texel, to watch them.
Sometimes seals also come near the boat. Then you see them pop up for a moment and then quickly go under again. So it's prize shooting if you know roughly where the seal should reappear. This seal came close to the boat, and it was pure luck that I was able to photograph it, because the boat itself was not lying still in the waves either. So this one came up between the waves. The water is that of the Marsdiep, the water connection between the North Sea and the Wadden Sea.
Seals, also called seals, belong to the marine mammals. They may look cute, but they are predators with teeth and nails and will use them. They are therefore dangerous.
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