Showing posts with label seals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seals. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

A SEAL'S LIFE

Two seals bobbing in the bay before high tide, as seen from the quay in Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme on a perfect summer evening. 

Vocabulary 
un phoque:  a seal
un quai:  a quay
la marée haute:  high tide
la marée basse:  low tide
la marée montante:  rising tide
la marée descendante:  ebb tide


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Monday, November 14, 2011

DESTINATION: BAIE DE SOMME

France's meager wild seal population resides in the Baie de Somme, a nature reserve and migratory bird refuge on the northern coast.
Visit the Baie de Somme vicariously by clicking here to access the above interacitve map.
Unretouched photos made by Marianne Lecron on a tawny November day.


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