During the fall months, large rafts of California Sea Lions, both adult and juvenile males migrate from their breeding grounds along the coast of California to up north as far as the Alaska panhandle. The females
stay put and or travel south as far as Mexico.
Shown are a few of many in rafts that were swimming back and forth following the rocky shoreline on the mid east of Vancouver Island. The Sea Lions were feeding on schools of Herring. It was so cool to watch them swimming back in forth in large groups and listening to some of them barking, like the ones shown.
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“PHOTO INFORMATION”

Taken on Feb 5/12 at 12:58pm at Beachcomber Beach on mid east Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada.
Camera, Canon 7D
Lens, Canon EF 100-400 L IS USM lens.
Tripod, Manfrotto, including 498RC2 ballhead.
Taken at, 1/800’s at f/7.1, +1/2/3 ev, 400mm, iso 800 man white bal.
No cropping, shadow/highlights adjustment in CS2, used both Topaz adjust and Simplify to enhance detailing. Sharpened in CS2 via lab mode, lightness channel, unsharp mask ( amount 35, radius 2 Threshold 2).