As if asleep on the beach, a dead sea-lion has almost lost its last link with the winter sea.

It likely died two days ago on this lonely stretch of coast, undisturbed by anything but the ’song of the surf ’.
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(No injuries evident, and not an old sea-lion.)

Geltwood Beach area, near Rivoli Bay, South-East of South Australia.
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(Title from, "The Song of the Surf ", by local poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, 1833 – 1870 . A bust of Gordon is in Westminster Abbey.)