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A juvenile grey seal turned up eleven miles inland after last week’s surge, hauled out on a flooded car park in Donegal. The rescue crew kept her cool with wet towels for six hours until the tide dropped, then walked her back down the drain channel by torchlight. She swam off without once looking back, which is the highest compliment a seal can pay you.

Grey seal resting on a pebbled beach, photo by Patrick Nizan on Pexels Tidal channel through a saltmarsh at dusk, photo by Julia Fuchs on Pexels
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saltmere 21h

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