Ice Breaker

Whilst walking on Winterton Dunes, Norfolk, I heard a cracking sound coming from a frozen freshwater pool below. At first, I couldn’t see what was causing the ice to break but then the unmistakable shape of a young Grey Seal’s head popped up through a hole in the ice. I went for a closer look and watched unobserved as the pup swam under the ice re-emerging at a different air holes. After a while it had cleared a small area of ice, which floated on the surface, and I watched as it played, nosing chunks of ice around the pool. I captured this image of our meeting as it surfaced amongst the broken ice and looked straight at me.