Music: Brobdingnagian Bards - My Irish Valentine
Welcome to H-Island! This is a secret spot we discovered a while ago. If you are really interested what island it is, feel free to email me. Why am I not publishing the whole name of that place? Well, first of all it is somewhat dangerous (see second last picture - these are actual stairs you have to walk on - one mistake and you are flying) - also it is privat land and you need to ask permission of the farmer to walk over his land. It’s all gated ! And last reason … The seals …. We already feel very bad to scare that seal so badly. In fact it was all fine until I started taking pictures with my medium format camera. Poor seal - it probably thought it was a gun or something.
Back in the days you could make a couple of easy bucks for killing seals and trading in seals heads for 4 pounds each. But still - fishermen are still hating seals. They estimate that every seals eats 1.000 pounds worth of fish. Not sure how they come up with that number … POUNDS! It’s Euros now! …
More Pictures …. on my Ireland Blog … by the way my Ireland Blog got a facelift 
Technorati Tags: Photography, Travel, Video, Grey Seal, Seal, Video, Close up, Island, Ireland, Irish, County Mayo, Mayo, Hike, Ocean, Atlantic
J wrote,
It’s a beautiful island. The seal was interesting but I stopped watching when I realized it was terrified. You should have stopped filming at that point.
Link | March 25th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
RGS wrote,
J … yeah .. I feel bad .. but it got scared from the clicking sound of the camera and from us being there. Watch the end of the video, because there you will see that the seal calmed itself… So you we both can sleep in peace ..
Link | March 26th, 2007 at 12:07 am