Watch: Sea lion catches a perfect wave, and it’s beautiful

Video footage surfaced this week showing a sea lion's masterful ride on a small wave in turquoise waters at an unknown destination.

The sea lion's movements are fluid and seemingly effortless during a brief exhibition that includes two aerials before it gracefully exits the wave near the shore.

The video appeared Monday on a Twitter feed operated in the Netherlands with no information beyond the title: "Sea lion riding a wave." (At the time of this post, the footage had garnered more than 500,000 views.)

FTW Outdoors traced the video to the source, Dylan deHass, a photographer based in Australia. His footage is featured below.

DeHass said he captured the footage with the help of a drone last August at a remote beach in Esperance in Western Australia.

"It was alone," deHass said. "They use the waves to travel the beach in search of food."

-Image courtesy of Dylan deHass Films