A wayward juvenile gray seal made its way into Edgartown last Friday, spotted in a number of places on or near Fuller street. At one point the seal was in front of the Edgartown Yacht Club tennis courts off Pease’s Point Way. Traffic was diverted by volunteers. With assistance, the seal made its way back to the sea.

David Grunden, shellfish constable from Oak Bluffs, is also a marine mammal stranding coordinator for the Vineyard. Mr. Grunden received a call from the New England Aquarium on Friday morning that there was a seal in Edgartown.

— Mark Alan Lovewell

With help, the seal was corralled into a portable plastic kennel. Tom O’Hanlon assisted Mr. Grunden and his wife, Sharry, in getting the seal back to Fuller street beach.

“We stayed on the beach with it for at least a half an hour. The seal was behaving well,” Mr. Grunden said. He made another visit to the beach later in the day. Tracks in the sand revealed that the seal eventually went back into the water.

Mr. Grunden said the seal was only a few months old.

— Mark Alan Lovewell

— Mark Alan Lovewell