Inc. All Rights Reserved Dawn. A small herd of harbor seals is resting an isolated rock, hardly large enough to be referred to as an island, over twenty miles from the mainland. Join us, as we journey to the waters of New England, in search of the elusive and isolated seals making their homes in this remote region. The search for seals is not an easy one, and even we did not realize the difficulty of the task facing us when embarking upon this mission.
Seals prefer to live in isolation, far from human populations.
Hundreds of years of hunting by man has taught the seals to be wary. When the U.S. marine mammal protection act was passed in 1972, seals were nearly gone from most of New England. Our journey begins in Maine, aboard a chartered boat steaming towards an uninhabited island in the chilly North Atlantic Ocean. Although the occasional seal can be seen swimming by in a harbor, only remote islands will contain colonies of seals hauled out on the rocks. Of course, we find things to do while waiting for the boat to return.