{"id":959583,"date":"2026-05-14T15:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959583\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:47:14","slug":"swimmer-has-magical-moment-swimming-with-seal-in-poole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959583\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmer has &#8216;magical&#8217; moment swimming with seal in Poole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The local swim instructor who was training for a charity event said at first glance she initially thought it might have been a dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surprised when she realised it was a seal, she said she was &#8220;a little bit nervous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just thought well if I just keep swimming and not bother it, it will probably go away but that wasn&#8217;t the case,&#8221; Mills said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a regular swimmer in the area, she said she always tries to keep away from any wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t really have much option here we were swimming together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mills said at times she would stop to see if the animal had gone underneath her but then noticed it had stopped up ahead of her as if it was waiting for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has since nicknamed it &#8220;Mr Seal&#8221; though she admitted she was not really sure if it was male of female.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt very humbled to be able to swim with this seal,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The local swim instructor who was training for a charity event said at first glance she initially thought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-959583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116573716169432782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}