The boundless energy of youth

While his adult companions relaxed on the rocks or rolled around on the surface, this juvenile NZ Fur Seal was having the time of his life whizzing around our heads. Frozen in motion here, he was going at quite a pace for this shot - it was a bit of luck to capture him in such a fantastic pose.

Curiosity

This NZ fur seal off Montague Island in Australia was incredibly inquisitive, swimming around us, peering at our lights and reflective domes, even picking up and playing with an inadvertently discarded weight pocket from a previous diver. In this shot he's checking out the anchor line of our dive boat.