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Our aim is to return all these pups back into the wild, and because of a greater knowledge of how to care for Seals built up over the years, along with improved facilities and medication, our success rate is very good. The Sanctuary is also a permanent home to a community of adult seals, who for various reasons can not be released back into the wild.

The highlight of any visit to the sanctuary is feeding time, when Magnus, Sheba, Anneka, and the rest of the adult Seals all have their own amusing way of attracting more than their fair share of the fish, Magnus will splash the water until he gets a fish.

We also have some resident Sea Lions. Rocky, a Californian Sea Lion, was born in captivity in a facility at Brighton. They had performing Sea lions there, and Rocky would have been trained to do tricks as well, but they soon noticed that Rocky was going blind, so the Sanctuary on hearing about Rocky's problem stepped in to offer him a home. He now leads a contented life with Pepper, a female Californian Sea Lion who came over from Cape Cod Aquarium.

BOADICEA (or "Boadi") is our adult female Patagonian (Southern) Sea Lion. As typical of the species, Boadi weighs less than half that of an adult male and yet still manages to eat her way through 8 kilos of fish a day. The Patagonian and Californian Sea Lions, the Cape Fur Seals, the adult Grey Seals, the various pups, the audio visual interpretation area, and other information boards, along with our staff, will make it an educational and enjoyable day out at The National Seal Sanctuary.

Our main purpose is to Rescue, Rehabilitate, and Release, but it is the large number of visitors we get every year, many returning each season, which has helped us become what we are today.............

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