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'Keep them wild': Rehabilitated seal pups reintroduced to Whidbey beach
WHIDBEY ISLAND — Foggy trees across the harbor made the horizon of Windjammer’s City Beach on Monday morning. The pool-still water matched the gray of the sky. The only sounds were distant gull calls and the hum of traffic when the SR3 ambulance pulled up.
That’s why Casey McLean, executive director of Sea Life Response, Rehabilitation and Research, chose the location to release three rehabilitated seal pups. Windjammer Park is calm and uncrowded, within 30 miles of where each of the pups were rescued and other seals frequent its waters which help guide the pups once they make it back into the water.
The ambulance doors opened wide, releasing a foul, wet-dog stench. Interns heaved the crates of harbor seals one at a time, placing them side-by-side on the sandy floor. As this happened, a wild seal passed through the water in front just as McLean predicted.
It was a joyous day, the result of rescue and rehabilitation — release, but more than that, success.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/keep-them-wild-rehabilitated-pups-reintroduced-to-whidbey-beach/