Our Baby from the Sea

Our Baby from the Sea 

The other day, Simone gave me a call and suggested we take the boys and go for a picnic at Sandy Cove. It was a beautiful sunny day and so we did. We had sandwiches, sand cookies, sandwatermelon, and sand in our shoes .. despite being a rather gritty experience it was good to find a soft sandy beach because so many beaches around here are rocky.

After our sandpicnic we headed down the beach. The little boys saw her first .. she was so small, so friendly and she came right up to the boys. Being the protective mama, Simone held them back but crouched down and talked to the baby seal. Some kind of bond happened between them -- Simone says she doesn't know if the seal was trying to talk to her, or to Sammy (on her back). Was it baby trying to talk to mama, or a baby talking to another baby?

We went back down the beach a ways thinking that our presence was keeping her from going back into the water. We went back half an hour later and she was still there. She started to use her little flippers to come towards us when she saw us, and when we went to leave, she tried to follow us. Just like a little puppy.

She eventually did go back into the water. We also saw four adult seals kicking and splashing out in the water. We were worried that she lost her mama, but we had to just let it go and realize that the sea would take care of her. Ben and Max wanted to bring her home, of course.

Simone and I still don't know what the little gal was trying to say to us. Maybe we aren't supposed to figure it out.