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Happy World Ocean Day ✨🌊☀️

I cannot thank you enough for the life you have given me. I look forward to many more years living by your shores, swimming in your waters, feeling your dried salt on my skin, learning about your inhabitants and working to protect you.

📸 Thank you for the picture

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Meet the Baltic Seals 🌊☀️

Well well, you may not know this, but seals are among my favourite animals ever! This is why I am very excited to be living in the Baltic Sea now where three seal species can be found! Let’s introduce them to you:

The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) is the most abundant and largest. But this has not always been so. Grey seals have almost gone extinct in the southern Baltic Sea due to culling campaigns as they were believed to eat away all the fish in the area. Since 2003 their colonies have started to increase again!

The ringed seal (Phoca hispida) inhabits the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. It does not come down to Germany, but it still swims around in the Baltic Sea. This seal is of a smaller size, reaching a length of up to 1.5 meters. Its name comes from the dark spot it has that is surrounded by grey rings.

The harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) is also known as the common seal. These seals are brown mixed with silvery-white or gray. Each pattern is unique to the individual. While their population is not threatened worldwide, it is in the Baltic Sea.

Swipe through the pictures and let me know in the comments which one your favorite is!

📸 Grey Seal by Niklas Sjöblom
📸Ringed Seal by NOAA
📸Harbor seal by Andreas Trepte

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Meet the Baltic Sea!

I finally made it to the Baltic Sea!

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. It is enclosed by a number of northern countries (swipe to see the map) and connected to the Atlantic Sea through the Danish Strait.

The exchange of water between the Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic Sea is limited, making it a brackish sea. This means that it is a sea with low salinity. This actually makes the Baltic Sea a species-poor environment and connections between species are relatively simple. This makes the sea especially vulnerable, as taking out one of its elements can create a big unbalance.

The harbour porpoise is the only resident cetacean in the Baltic Sea. Losing it would thus be an important loss for the ecosystem. Get ready to learn more about it

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Happy Valentine's to my one true love 🌊☀️🦈🐳

Can't wait to continue discovering you on different corners of this planet, taste your saltiness and have the best hairstyles after sumerging myself in you.

Thank you for being my home and giving my life a purpose. I promise I will work to preserve your beauty and support your inhabitants as long as you allow me to.

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