Harbor Seal is Shore's First Visitor of 2011
Marine mammal was seen hunting in the Manasquan Inlet Jan. 1
He was a New Year's Day guest few people would have turned away, though the food bill probably would have been prohibitively high. As his head popped up out of the chilly waters of the Manasquan Inlet around 3 p.m., all the folks who figured out how to park their cars in the plowed-in parking lot at Inlet Drive in Pt. Pleasant Beach jumped out of their vehicles and gathered around to see the small harbor seal make an appearance. An amateur photographer grabbed his camera with an ultra-zoom lens, an older man directed youngsters to where his head might pop up next and anglers hoped not to hook him. So goes a Jersey Shore seal sighting. "There are a couple hundred in New Jersey," said Bob Schoelkopf, director of the Marine Mammal Stranding …
