After being away for four months to get healthy at the SeaLife Center in Seward, Rocky hits the water at Petroglyph Beach on Oct. 3.
At 3:44 p.m. on Oct. 3 Rocky dipped her flippers back into the shoreline by Petroglyph Beach. She waded out into the stone-laden shallows, turned back to the crowd as if to say goodbye to the Wrangell residents who saved her life four months ago, and then swam out to sea.
Rocky had been in the care of marine biologists at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward since June. On June 20, Wrangell resident Dan Trail found her wedged between two rocks on Petroglyph Beach. She was just a week old.
At the time, she was dehydrated, malnourished and trembling. By the time of her release, Rocky's vitals had...
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