All organisms strive to simplify their lives and are naturally found where the conditions are good for them. This is also the case with the seal and harbor seal populations around Renesse: they grow and the animals know where to find their food. When the water from the Crevelinger Mer pushes through the Bouwersdam at Spuisluis at low tide and pulls the fish back into the North Sea, they are there. They wait comfortably in front of the lock, stick their noses out of the water and enjoy the sun. Would’t it be great to be a seal?

Spuisluis is ringe by a high fence and I could not get any closer to the shoreline, so the images are partly upscaled by ai.