On my initial visit to this rookery four days earlier, I photographed it from a greater distance and a higher position while on board a small cruise ship. On this second visit, I could photograph these sea lions from sea level and closer vantage point. I built this image around the dynamic interactions at the crest of the rocky rookery. Although there are many sea lions in this image, our eye goes directly to the dispute at the peak of the rock, where the raised heads of two sea lions echo the mountain peak rising behind it. Meanwhile, two other sea lions are giving each other an earful on the right hand end of the slope.