With blubber ‘shaking,’ 800-pound seal scoots back to sea after roadside standoff

After a 90-minute staredown with first responders and a crowd of curious onlookers on a road near the north shore of P.E.I. Sunday, an 800-pound hooded seal finally turned around and began to “hump, hump, hump” the half-kilometre or so back to sea.