On Oct. 23 at Sandy Beach, community members attended the release into the wild of Bravo the rehabilitated harbor seal pup who had been stranded and rescued when only a few days old.
Back in May, National Marine Fisheries Enforcement Officer Jerod Cook responded to a call from Petersburg's police department about a stranded baby seal at the Libby Straits south of town.
"He was just hanging on to the beach there," Cook said. "We never did see a mother for it."
He moved the seal to a safer location, then came back to check on it the next day.
"It was obvious that something, a decision, needed to be made," Cook said.
After several months of treatment at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, that seal returned home on Oct. 23. Over a hundred people gathered at Sandy Beach to se...
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