Video footage surfaced this week showing a sea lion’s masterful ride on a small wave in turquoise waters at an unknown destination.
The sea loin’s movements are fluid and seemingly effortless during a brief exhibition that includes two aerials before the pinniped gracefully exits the wave near the shore.
The video appeared Monday on a Twitter feed operated in the Netherlands with no information beyond the title: “Sea lion riding a wave.” (At the time of this post, the footage had garnered more than 500,000 views.)
FTW Outdoors traced the video to the source, Dylan deHass, a photographer based in Australia. His footage is featured below.
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DeHass said he captured the footage with the help of a drone last August at a remote beach in Esperance, in Western Australia.
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“It was alone,” deHass said. “They use the waves to travel the beach in search of food.”
Reads one of the comments (obviously from a surfer) beneath deHass’ post: “Best thing on Insta… by a country mile.”
–Image courtesy of Dylan deHass Films