Flubbery Blubbery @ Pin Mill

[MikeBz]

Dropped the hook under the trees @ Pin Mill on Friday evening. At around 22:15 there was a hell of a splashing commotion outside - "must be a seal" says I. Head up out of the hatch for a look - there's a seal in the dinghy! Go to get the camera and he flops off and away. 5 mins later, more splashing - he's back. Try to get a picture and he's off again. Same again 5 mins later. Go back below and wait. He's back. This time I leave him alone for 15 mins to let him settle - now he lets me hang off the back of the boat and take pics, obviously he now thinks he owns the dinghy as he stays put but makes some pretty aggressive noises.

At 5am, daylight, I peek out - and he's still there. Go for the camera to get a daylight picture (his fur has dried off is quite pale in the daylight) but he decides it's breakfast time and is off.

Night time pictures not too good as the flash glares off the dinghy and the seal fur just looks black and doesn't pick up any light.

Lucky it was a flubber and not a hard dinghy or it would have been upside down!

 

[Mukes]

Have had our dinghy "raped" by a seal on our mooring at Pin Mill several times! Last time we shooed him off then saw him, what can only be described as, "humping a bouy" down stream, (note spelling).

 

[stuarta]

I wonder if any open transom yachts have found one in the cockpit? Good reason to keep the washboards in, it wouldn't be very easy to get a grumpy one of those up the companionway in the morning!

Great pictures, thanks for brightening up my Monday morning in the office.

 

[WF36]

Great pictures, thanks for brightening up my Monday morning in the office.

+1!

 

[Hadenough]

Great pics. We had a visit from the same bod a couple of weeks ago just opposite where you were. He (she?) didn't get into the squidgy, which was alongside, just raised himself up on the tubes seemingly to check out our dog in the cockpit. Dunno who was most surprised!