The seals’ return to the ocean was a long time coming. They were newborns when they were spotted in early June, emaciated and dehydrated, on a Kasilof beach.
Admiral, a harbor seal pup rescued by the Alaska SeaLife Center, heads immediately to the ocean after being released from his crate on Aug. 24, 2022 in Kenai. Two harbor seal pups who were rescued earlier this summer have returned to the wild.
“We don’t want to spook them,” said Savannah Costner, an animal care specialist with the center’s wildlife response department. “This is the most people they’ve ever seen in their entire lives. So it’s going to be a little bit scary for them.”Admiral — a 50-pound male — booked it straight to the water, where he then waited for his sister Cobalt, who wasn’t so sure about the people hovering nearby.
They spent all summer at the SeaLife Center. And when they got released, the only evidence of their time at the center was a small blue tag with an identification number on their tail fins.Costner said it’s special every time the center releases a rehabilitated animal back into the wild, but there was something extra sweet about seeing Cobalt and Admiral swim away. She helped care for and train the seals and oversaw their release.
The Alaska SeaLife Center Wildlife Response Program admitted the first two harbor seal pup patients of the summer on June 2, 2022. Hildy’s mom took her and her older sister out of school in Kenai to watch the pups return home to Cook Inlet. “It’s just a neat experience to see,” she said. “It’s really, really cool to think how they literally were just off of our beach next to our home. They got rehabilitated, and they’re back in the wild again. And they’re super cute, too. Not a lot of kids get to see this kind of stuff.”
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