{"id":2107,"date":"2014-03-06T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rhworldimagery.wordpress.com\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2015-04-02T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:46:36","slug":"seal-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/06\/seal-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer David Jenkins travelled to Seal Island in False Bay, South Africa, one of the principal breeding sites of the cape fur seal. The presence of so many seals attracts some of the biggest great white sharks ever recorded, who have a unique way of hunting the seals in which they jump, sometimes completely out of the water, to catch them.<\/p>\n<p>Cape fur seals, Seal Island, False Bay, Simonstown, Western Cape<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/results.php?Search=938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus), Seal Island, False Bay, Simonstown, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/938-72.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Great white shark in the waters off Seal Island<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/results.php?Search=938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Seal Island, False Bay, Simonstown, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/938-93.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Common dolphins swim by the Island<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/results.php?Search=938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Common dolphin (Delphinus capensis), Seal Island, False Bay, Simonstown, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/938-92.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great white shark catching a seal in mid air in the waters off Seal Island<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/results.php?Search=938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Seal Island, False Bay, Simonstown, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/938-71.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great white flips over in the sea off Seal Island with its catch in its mouth<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/results.php?Search=938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2108\" alt=\"Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Seal Island, False Bay, Simonstown, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/938-86.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/938-86.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/938-86-366x245.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more of David Jenkins&#8217; photography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/results.php?Search=938\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer David Jenkins travelled to Seal Island in False Bay, South Africa, one of the principal breeding sites of the cape fur seal. 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