Stepping Stones To the Seal Caves

Stephen Westcott's Stepping Stones to the Seal Caves is a well-researched exploration of how grey seals have used remote British sea caves across the past several hundred years. He brings us into and shares the present having paddled a wave ski along massive tracts of the western coasts of Britain to make cave explorations and pathfinding seal studies over the past thirty years. From locations among the last wild places of Britain, what the seals are doing through the year - rearing pups, sharing the great winter moulting assemblies or resting between foraging trips - is elaborated, including hitherto unpublished research, along with anecdotes not only from his adventures but from the few who ventured there before him. It is also a love-letter to the gauntly beautiful places, atmospheres and to the seals with whom he has shared so much of his life.