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Spot, of whom I often gush, is a harbor seal I met in October of 2000 in Whaler's Cove at the Point Lobos National Marine Reserve. I had just finned through a dense kelp forest at the mouth of Whaler's Cove towards open ocean and dropped down to a large pinnacle looming up from the sea floor a hundred feet below. Along the side of the pinnacle, amongst brilliantly colored soft corals, sea anemones, crabs, red algae, starfish, small shrimp and a number of multi-hued f