At Davis station there are two good spots for looking at elephant seals. One is right out the front of the station on the beach. The other is the old wallow. As nothing to exciting has gone on in a bit I thought I might include this bit about the old wallow.
Firstly let me describe elephant seals. They are huge creatures that seem to do nothing all day. They lie on the beach, sometimes having fights or playing, but mostly just lying. When the need to move the go several meters, then decide it all seems to hard, lie down and have a rest for a few minutes before repeating the process.
They also seem to fart and poo a lot, and generally lay about in their own shed skin and poo.
The old wallow is good as it takes about 45 minutes to an hour to walk to around Heidemann Bay to the south of the station. It is a pleasant walk that does not take to long so it is done a few times. Te area the seals are in is not disturbed like the station beach, so there are hundreds, possibly thousands of years of seal skin and poo built up.
Unfortunatly this day their were not to many seals, although there were a few penguins saying hello.
On the way back we came across an emperor penguin chick malting, quite a rare site around the station.
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