Oh the little seals and big beautiful eyes....

Just up the road from Port Appin was the Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary, so we stopped in for a visit to sea (sic) what was what! Home and hospital to two otters and numerous baby seals, two baby seals were being nursed to a weight where they could return to the sea, very sick little pups (but on the way to good health & in very good hands). However, a number of seals were soon ready to go back to the wild but were happy to provide a feeding frenzy display for us in the meantime. The centre even had a rescued sea turtle that had become extremely disorientated when found near the Scottish coast, as he should have been in the Mediterranean, he was missing a rudder though (this is a common turtle injury). He was 9 degrees below his proper body temperature when he first came in, so they are slowly increasing the water temperature until he is back to normal. The staff were excellent and happy to spend a lot of time chatting about the animals...obviously a labour of love. Cait reckons this is where all the good-looking Scottish blokes ended up...all two of them!! The pic (of the seals not the good-looking Scotsmen!) will speak louder than words...and the VERY loud seals (proclaimed to be "poor starving beasties" by one of the carers just prior to feedies time).