{"id":474313,"date":"2026-02-14T10:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474313\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:46:06","slug":"photos-seal-spotted-lounging-in-a-very-strange-place-near-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474313\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Seal spotted lounging in a very strange place near Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seal lounging on rutter<\/p>\n<p>Jane Seyd \/ Lodestar Media &#8211; Feb 13, 2026 \/ 10:16 pm | Story: 599246<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"A seal strikes a pose on the rudder of a giant grain ship at anchor in Vancouver's English Bay on Monday. | David Raglin photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/glacier_186500_p.jpg\" style=\"height:854px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: .<\/p>\n<p>A seal strikes a pose on the rudder of a giant grain ship at anchor in Vancouver&#8217;s English Bay on Monday. | David Raglin photo<\/p>\n<p>West Vancouver resident David Raglin has seen a lot of cool things in his work as a ship\u2019s agent.<\/p>\n<p>Travelling back and forth by launch to ships at anchorage in Vancouver Harbour, \u201cWe see whales and dolphins\u201d frequently, he said.<\/p>\n<p>But on Monday, Raglin and other ship inspectors saw something that still ranked as unusual: a seal casually lying above the water on the rudder of a massive freighter at anchor.<\/p>\n<p>Raglin said he had just stepped off a grain ship at anchor in English Bay, when the launch driver pointed out the seal resting on the ship\u2019s rudder.<\/p>\n<p>Raglin said he doesn\u2019t know how the seal would have got up on the rudder \u2013 or why. But it seemed content to hang out and continue posing while people on the launch watched and took photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seal lounging on rutter Jane Seyd \/ Lodestar Media &#8211; Feb 13, 2026 \/ 10:16 pm | Story:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-474313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}