1. I had first seen it on out Skerries during spring migration.

2. We set a course for Out Skerries in good visibility and fairly calm seas.

3. Near Muckla Skerry there was a bit more action: groups of porpoises were puffing their way along.

4. For the Out Skerries comprise a group of three little islands which are conveniently arranged to form a perfect natural harbour.

5. Photographer Brian Skerry spied this one peeking from a crevice near Ireland's southwest coast. "We found they were common off Valentia Island," he says.

6. Whatever skerry or reef you land on, Alas, my love, that I cannot be by you.

7. Photograph by Brian Skerry – Hunting for morsels of plankton, a school of spadefish hovers near the surface off Japan's subtropical Bonin Islands.

8. Saprazzan Skerry comes into play tapped with two depletion counters on it. tap, Remove a depletion counter from Saprazzan Skerry : Add two blue mana to your mana pool.

9. Skerry A leaping manta ray (Manta birostris) seems to fly above the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico.

10. And then, camera in hand, Skerry dives between the ice floes into the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk, bordering the Shiretoko Peninsula.

11. We found the eider flock at the back of Bound Skerry, on which the lighthouse stands.

12. Many of these animals had never seen a human before," Skerry told National Geographic News.

13. Few, too, would dare the spoken-word interlude with which she delivers the tragic denouement of The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry.

14. Alas, my love, that I cannot be by you, Whatever skerry or reef you land on.

15. Great white sharks are torpedo-shaped with powerful tails that can propel them through the water at up to 15 miles (24 kilometers) per hour. Photograph by Brian J. Skerry.

16. This is the underwater world that awaits photographer Brian Skerry, who is lumbering across the beach near a fishing town called Rausu, in Japan's northeastern corner.