One of the kids favorite places to go near here is the Pacific Marine Mammal Centre. This place really is great...right now they are rehabilitating three elephant seals, eight sea lions and three harbor seal pups. If it's not busy the staff usually will take the children behind the fences and talk to them about the animals and what they do to help them. This week while I was chatting with one of the volunteers she invited the kids and I to come to the releasing of three seals that were fully recovered and ready to re-enter the ocean. What a great opportunity, as this is generally not open to the public. I assured her we would be there! So Sunday morning we left at 7:30 to go to the beach and be part of reuniting the seals with the ocean! It turned out to be an extremely joyous and emotional experience as we watched these little ones scamper across the sand and swim off...we watched them for quite awhile swimming, jumping and just playing! And the three of them stayed together the whole time. This was probably one of the most exciting things we have experienced since being on the road, and we are so thankful to the centre for inviting us!
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This sounds way too cool. I would love to see something like this.
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