Three weeks ago, I was fishing in the lower Chesapeake and spotted a creature, a seal!

Although seals will occassionally come up into the Virginia side of the Chesapeake Bay, they are only rarely seen in Maryland. I saw one! How cool was that?

There were four of us on the boat. We are all avid outdoorsman. And two of us fish around the world together, me and my fishing buddy. However, it was me and his friend that saw the seal. We saw a head pop up about thirty feet from the boat. We saw the creature take a breath and dive. It resurfaced about 90 feet from the original place we saw it surface.

I know what cryptid witnesses feel like now. We exclaimed, seal! The other two fisherman laughed at us and thought we were kidding. We then explained to them what we saw. Knowing us, they believed us. But it did take some explaining to them and convincing them it was not a joke on our part.

We get a lot of big turtles in the Chesapeake, that break water with their heads. They are commonly mistaken for other animals. It was no turtle.
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And there are a lot of rays in the Chesapeake. We saw several hundred that day alone. It was not a ray breaking the surface. It was definitely a seal.

We had seen a mammal, that was uncommon to those waters, yet we were able to shake off our preconceived notions of what we probably saw and identify the animal correctly, a seal!

About a week later, there is a blog that many local fisherman visit. At the forum there, a fisherman relunctantly asked the question, “Uh, did anyone else see seals in the lower Chesapeake recently?” There were all kind of answers by skeptics and those that had seen them in their lifetime. Most of those observances came from the Virginia side of the Chesapeake, making it even more of a rarity to see what I had observed firsthand, a seal in the lower Chesapeake, on the Maryland side!

Both of us who saw it, felt honored to have witnessed that. But given the reaction from our friends, we sure were not telling anyone else. LOL

So I now have empathy for people who claim they see BF. They know what they saw and I know what I saw. They are not neophytes to the woods and I am not a neophyte to bodies of water. Friends of the witnesses take some taunting and kidding, and that is from their own friends. One can only imagine the scrutiny and skepticism that comes from those that do not know the witnesses.

Seriously, I did not tell another soul until now, of what I saw that day. I am telling that story now. I figure, there are fewer skeptical people here at Cryptomundo. Therefore, I am sharing that story.

Pretty cool, eh?

There’s a certain sad story about manatees, which according to my family happened some time ago in Jalisco, Mexico. In the Chapala lake, that had a pretty serious problem of water hyacinth blooming, some Maverick politicians had the ingenious idea of bringing a couple of manatees and putting them in the lake, so they would eat the plants and solve the problem; unfortunately, the local fishermen thought the beasts were feeding on the lake fish and competing them.

They ended up killing the poor beasts, and cooking them in a barbecue