Markie and Dick went for a walk on the Beach....
And then Dick showed me a picture of a beached baby seal(well not a baby, but little). I wanted to see it so Kabe and I marched up the beach to where he was laying... I wasn't prepared for the sadness.
he looked so cute but at the same time he was very very sad. Dick had heard from a group of people who had been watching him that he had been there for 2 days trying to work his way down the beach.
The people he talked to said they had called the authority's and they had told them just to let him be. If he was strong enough to make it to water he would live but if not then it was his time to die.
Kabe and I took the pictures i couldnt help but feel awful about hit... his giant eyes were staring up at us almost saying "why are you just standing there taking pictures and not doing anything to help."
Kabe pulled me away insisting that we let nature take its course... we walked back to the group and went on with our day. But the thought of the helpless seal never left my mind, and i spoke to everyone in the group about the poor guy. Everyone else insisted that we just leave him be. Everyone except Dick. The entire day we would secretly tell each other ideas we had about how to save him and get him back to the water he so desperately needed to survive.
When we were there earlier in the day it was low tide, i convinced the group that we should go down and check on him at high tide and see if he had gotten himself far enough down to get washed back out to sea. So a group of us marched down the beach to where he was lying and sure enough he was still there, breathing harder than ever, but he did manage to lift his head and give out a grunt... everyone was ready to head back and i decided to wait and watch he tide roll in a bit more. and i noticed Dick go up to where the beach met the ridge and pull out a long stick. He walked over to the seal, I think his plan was to try and roll him into the water, but supprisingly when dick started to walk towards him he lifted his head and let out a growl.
Dick got him turned towards the ocean and "herded" into the waves.
He was pretty pissed off by the stick, but i think he also knew what was going on...
Dick stopped a couple times to let him rest. he slowly backed further and further into the waves until the started to crash around him, and then he started to go into them on his own.
he eventually swam under the waves and out to sea on his own... dick threw down the stick and i ran up to him, hugged him and told him he was my hero. the thing is, i know it was best to let nature take its course, and from what i can see we didn't do anything wrong, we just helped him decided that he wanted to live, and now what happens to him out there in the water is natures deal. At least we did something.
...Fell asleep on the couch with her baby.
