Seals!

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We went to Dundrum today and went for an enormous walk which ended up as miles and miles in the rain. There was a colony of seals, both young ones and adults, on the other side of the inner bay below the army firing range. We could hear them making sort of hooting noises, and when they moved or went down into the water they humped themselves like caterpillars. I suppose they like it there because people aren't allowed on the beach. Gunfire doesn't seem to annoy them! We started hearing guns on the other side, which scared me and sent me back into the sandhills, but not other members of my family.