They have been visiting th bay for years now, but they don't seem to stay there all season long. Maybe the boat traffic disturbs them (aww, what a shame!) and they leave. I didn't see one but heard one at the Powderpoint Bridge a few years back. There's no mistaking that snorting exhale sound they make, kind of like a whale exhaling, only faster.
If the seals ever make the bay a new rookery, what will happen to fishing and boating rights? We all know that seals have more rights than the taxpayers that use the waters, right?
Anyway, hopefully they will head back out to where the sharks can pick them off, and leave the bays to us!
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