The Seal Nursery...

Many of the seals in quarantine have lung worms

One of the many pools of young seals

It was raining, so we didn’t spend much time outside

The seal cafeteria

Our real purpose for being in the north of the country was to visit the Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre in the small village of Pieterburen. While we have never seen a seal in Scheveningen, apparently there quite a lot that live off the northern outlying islands. Due to heavy storms this winter, a record number of baby grey seals were separated from their moms and eventually washed ashore. Specially trained rescue teams patrol the beaches and bring seals they find to this center, where they are nursed back to health and eventually returned to the wild.