In a flash, the slippery salmon slid down the throat of a satisfied seal before it disappeared underwater to digest its meal; but Sooke wildlife photographer, Brian Rundle, had been quick enough to capture the moment.
"I was at the river to photograph bears," said Rundle. "But the seal was swimming around out in front, and luckily I got the shot. It all happened in the blink of an eye."
Rundle describes watching the seal chew the head of the salmon off, before skinning. "Then it tipped it up and it was down the hatch."
"The poor salmon," he added. "They go out, wait three to five years to mature, come back in and then they get seal chewing on them, fisherman then bears. I'm surprised there's any fish left."
This is not the first time Rundle has captured a special moment in the wild. In August, he photographed a rare moment when a barred owl went beak to claw with a crayfish – unfortunately for the crayfish, it lost, but not before it pinched the owl on the cheek.
