Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-05-18
Seal Buniing With a Camera

A recent issue of the Hunter-Trad-
er-Trapper Magazine contained an
article by Guy o. Glazier, formerly a
resident of BaraboO and until recently
a resident Of San Diego. Mr.. and Mrs.
Q1axier will be in Baraboo soon. The
article in the magazine tells OF seal
hunting with a camera and reads a.
fellows:
Rarely ever does the hunter OF to-
day, going abroad In search OF game
or trophies, take with him other weap-
On than the most modern rife or shot
gan. And / freely admit that my
self have In the past been one Of the
most ardent lovers Of the rife, rod
and rapS.
Bat the hunting OF wild game IN
>ahair native haunts with q modern
Graflex camera has @ fascination OF
its own. Shooting game with cam
ara la far more fun and affords q bet
ter opportunity for studying the lives
and habits and modes of the living OF
the strange creatures of which the
world knows so little.
On June Is, 19-, party Of four OF
~ lovers of nature" answered the
call Of the Wild" and packing our
camp equipment, food, water and fuel.
we started by launch from San Diego,
Calf, for one of the most barren.
bleak and uninhabited islands of the
Pacific. Corpus Christi, one Of the
Coronado Group of Islands, Is but
twenty-five mile saway, twelve miles
from the mainland at the interna
tional boundary line between the Unit
ed States and MexicO-being two
miles below the line it belongs to
Mexico. 1t is about three-fourths OF
q mile long, and so peaked at the top
that a man standing on the pinnacle
can look down to the foot of the is.
land on both sides at once. Being OF
volcanic origin, there is not single
foot of soil or a drop of fresh water
upOn it; hence the necessity Of our
taking fuel and water.
Reaching the island about II O'Clock
o. M, we soon began tie hazardous
task Of getting our luggage ashore by
row boat and setting up our camp and
making our bed in the softest place
on the rocks. The fishing was good
and that night Fresh Fried Fish Fed
Four Famished Fishermen-and yea
we had boiled lobster besides.
The business end of our trip kcgan
next morning. After a night spent on
3 bed of crushed rock one is ready
yes, anxious, to get up early in the
morning, and after g hearty break
fast we began the almost perpendicu
bar climb of the four hundred and
8ixty-six feet, carrying with US lunch
two cameras and a canteen of water
Our objective point was the opposite
side of the island, but we could not
so by boat as on account of wind and
rough water 1t is impossible to land
a boat even in the Quietest weather
But on those barren, wind and wave
swept rocks q few small lodges is the
home or rookery of family of hun
areds of seals; and June Is their
breeding season.
We we're two hours getting to the
top of the island, boosting each other
up over the cliffs too high and sheer
to climb alone, picking our way
among the salt weed, cactus, and
lodging the nests and young of the
Ge birds (gulls, cormorants and peli-
eans), we finally reached the pinnacle
from where one gets a most maguifl-
cent view OF ocean, surf and main
land, a view which we'll repays one for
the climb. After getting our breath
and taking pull at the canteen, we
began the descent Of the west side !;
this we accomplished in an hour" and
ing and splashing of the seals in their
daily routine of life on the rocks be-
low. At height or about sixty feet
from the water we came out. of mar
row canyon or crevasse in full view of
the herd, and looking down upon them
was most wonderful sight-a sight
which, although so close to civiliza-
ton has probably, rarely if ever, been
seen before by human eyes. There
within distance of possibly two hun
dred feet were, swimming in the surf,
basking on the rocks, playing, fight
ing and sitting up to bark, probably
not less than two hundred seals, from
the baby or calf seal an hour old on
Np in size to yearlings, full grown and
even to the old bull of the herd, a
monster seal as big as a horse and
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