Smelly Seals!

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Seals are smelly! I did already know this from NZ where a small number of seals made a terrible smell. This was NOTHING compared to the stench of Cape Cross. There are 200,000 seals here and they all smell! When we first got out of the car it was pretty overwhelming. You did get used to it pretty quickly though.

The seals were amazing though mainly because there were so many of them. They were as far as the eye could see. It was like being in a BBC documentary! The only not so pleasant thing about it all was the fact that there were loads of black backed Jackals about waiting to prey on any unattended seal pups.


Once we had finished at the seal reserve we went back to our very nice accommodation for the night - the Cape Cross Lodge. We had a nice walk along the beach. It was good to be somewhere which was a bit cooler for a change.

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