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wildearth > At the southern tip of the North Island of New Zealand, is a remote place called Cape Palliser. Here, you can drive along the narrow road, following the rocky coastline. As you look out along the rocky coast, it suddenly dawns on you that many of the 'rocks' are not rocks at all, but members of a large colony of fur seals.
wildearth > These seal at Cape Palliser, New Zealand, are surprisingly unafraid of people and will let you approach to within about 3 meters before they bark and start to either threaten or move away.
wildearth > On a good day, when the seals are active, they play in the water like this young seal who was making a game of pushing around the seaweed.
wildearth > The tuatara is the last remaining member of an ancient family of reptiles.  They are seriously threatened and are now found only on some small islands off the coast of New Zealand.
wildearth > It would be rare indeed to see a tuatara in the wild as they are now mostly found on New Zealand's offshore islands.  I took this photo in the Wellington zoo.
wildearth > This female yellow-eyed penguin had just come ashore at the end of the day and fed her chicks.  Afterward, she found the last bit of sun and basked in the remaining warmth.
At the southern tip of the North Island of New Zealand, is a remote place called Cape Palliser. Here, you can drive along the narrow road, following the rocky coastline. As you look out along the rocky coast, it suddenly dawns on you that many of the 'rocks' are not rocks at all, but members of a large colony of fur seals.
 > At the southern tip of the North Island of New Zealand, is a remote place called Cape Palliser. Here, you can drive along the narrow road, following the rocky coastline. As you look out along the rocky coast, it suddenly dawns on you that many of the 'rocks' are not rocks at all, but members of a large colony of fur seals.
At the southern tip of the North Island of New Zealand, is a remote place called Cape Palliser. Here, you can drive along the narrow road, following the rocky coastline. As you look out along the rocky coast, it suddenly dawns on you that many of the 'rocks' are not rocks at all, but members of a large colony of fur seals.
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