DON’T LOOK INTO THEIR EYES: No, seriously, don’t. Federal law prohibits humans from getting closer than 100 yards to a seal (no matter how cute). PAWS
If a human stumbles across a baby seal, one of the first things that person might notice about the baby seal is its eyes. “They’re just these big, dark, limpid, black eyes holding yours,” West Seattle resident Brenda Peterson tells me on a recent August evening. “You’re just a goner, and people go, ‘Oh, my god.'”
We’re at an undisclosed location near a West Seattle waterfront so Peterson, a well-published nature writer who has lived in the area for 23 years, can show me where seal pups congregate. She agrees to do this on one condition: that I keep the location secret…
