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The first of the seals<\/a>, a photo by Steph Jennings<\/a> on Flickr.<\/span><\/div>\n

On the Banks Peninsula tramp as we were heading down from the headland into Stoney Bay we spotted a seal swimming in the ocean, moving down onto the beach to see if we could get a closer look we encountered the first of many many seals we’d stumble across on the Canterbury coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first of the seals, a photo by Steph Jennings on Flickr. On the Banks Peninsula tramp as we were heading down from the headland into Stoney Bay we spotted a seal swimming in the ocean, moving down onto the beach to see if we could get a closer look we encountered the first of … Continue reading The first of the seals<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[103,1],"tags":[343,364,383,344,359,342,562,382,358,381,384],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-wbiagw","tag-nzpicoftheday","tag-banks-peninsula","tag-fur-seal","tag-new-zealand","tag-ocean","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-sael","tag-sea","tag-stony-bay","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-hN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1040,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/05\/30\/akaroa-bay-from-699m\/","url_meta":{"origin":1103,"position":0},"title":"Akaroa Bay from 699m","date":"May 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Akaroa Bay from 699m, a photo by Steph Jennings on Flickr. 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