You can always tell you are in good country when there are predators like seals living there. Predators are a fraction in number of their prey, so where there are plentiful predators, there are plentiful prey animals too.
Seals have very stinky breath, BTW. It is the worst, most fishy smell breath I have ever experienced.
Thanks!
Edit: I remember that fermented salmon heads actually smell worse than seal breath. The Tlingits where I grew up called fermented salmon heads 'Ghink', which they told me means 'Stink Heads'.
Seals look more like friends than foe but I'm no fish, nor were we tempted to jump off the pier and find out. Hopefully you don't have to smell the breath of any more seals!
I won't be sneaking up on them ever again, so see no way I can again suffer that intimacy.