Seal Watching

 

You can't really see the seals in the picture but there's a black blob out there on a sandbar in Moriches Bay.

Atlantic Ocean

We went to Cupsogue Beach County Park and did "seal watching". Guy talks a bit about seals, turns out he's a bit concerned scaring away the seals. He has a telescope and you can see them through that. His camera zoom keeps turning off, kind of annoying. They wait till people leave and then walk down closer. We didn't wait, the little one wasn't patient enough for that. I saw woman with a difficult child and wanted to help her out, but I didn't. It's quite beautiful there and I'd like to go back there again even though it was a long drive.

He said in early times they worried the seals ate the fish too much, but now they don't worry about that, but the government used to give money for seal pelts. The Marine Mammal Protection Act put an end to that kind of nonsense in 1972, signed by Richard Nixon. 

Here's a video that is better than anything I saw with my eyes. Their photos link.