Sunday January 19, 2025 - With strong NW wind gusts forecast for tomorrow afternoon, and poorly timed tides until next Friday, we are going to take a break from seal watching, until the ends of the week, Anyone who is interested in seeing the details of our seal watching expeditions is encouraged to click on the Seal Observation Journal link above, where we record our observations and tell seal stories such as the tail biting escapades we observed last week.

I was warned before I retired that I would find myself busily occupied with all manner of activities, and it seems that semi-retirement has indeed turned out to be a very busy time for me. So far this season, we have done less seal watching than any year since 2000, and this aspect of our current lifestyle is not to our liking. We miss our nature adventures of all types greatly, and hope that in 2025 we will find more opportunities spend more time with the seals and our seal seeking friends.

We took a look at our past seal counts back in April, as we were curious when we had last seen over 150 seals on the rocks at Rome Point. It turns out that March 27, 2021 was the last seal count that exceeded the 150 seal benchmark, and we had to go back to spring 2018 to see multiple consecutive counts of greater than 150 seals. We would assert that there are not as many harbor seals making their winter home in Narragansett Bay as there were 10 years ago, for reasons that we continue to ponder as our seal counts gradually become slightly lower each season.

The links below connect to short seal videos we posted on YouTube for your seal watching amusement.  Seal Pup Follies was recorded in Maine in June 2012 and Linebelly Rising is a short clip showing the former Rome Point kingpin climbing to the top of his favorite pointy rock.