Holy Moly it’s a REAL LIVE baby seal!

This has got to be the best vacation ever, I think. I am leaned back against a long piece of sun-bleached drift wood, a tall iced tea in hand, watching as CJ digs a giant hole in the sand. The waves lap against the beach and the sun caresses me ever-so-gently.

Halfway through our week at Whidbey Island and I am totally in VACATION mode.  It’s a good mode, for sure.

Behind me Jay and dad are pulling the insides out of our soon-to-be dinner. Fresh Dungeness crab. Mmmm.

Suddenly, just off in front of me to the left, a movement catches my eye and, I see it.

“JAY!” I shout at the top of my lungs, “GET THE CAMERA BECAUSE THERE’S A BABY SEAL ON THE BEACH!”

Within seconds everyone is standing on the porch overlooking the beach.

“A baby seal?”

“Really?”

“Where?”

“Look! there it is!”

Nestled beside a rock, looking very cute and small, is a seal pup.

“Whoa. It is a baby seal.” Jay has walked down to stand beside me. “When you said you saw a seal, I was thinking it would be in the water. Not right here on the beach!”

The baby seal lifts its head to watch us.  His big black eyes are soulful, like a puppy’s.

“Mommy, he’s so cute!” CJ says.

“Don’t go near it!” shouts my mother, “I saw a newspaper clipping in town that warned people to stay away from seal pups.  If you go too close, the mother will abandon it.”

Luckily my camera has a ZOOM lens.  I snap picture after picture. 

This is unbelievable, I think.

How lucky are WE to have this special little peanut RIGHT HERE on our very own beach? 

Very lucky indeed.

Mom brings out her camera.  My sister gets hers too.  And my father-in-law pulls out the binoculars.

We can’t get enough of the baby seal.  All we see is the fluffiness and the smallness and the cuteness.

This is the best thing EVER!  we tell each other, what a great addition to our vacation!

But we are wrong.  Oh, how very wrong we are.

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