Slippery When Wet

I've had many close encounters of the wild life kind on the beach and yesterday was a first.  Although I may have seen this guy before.  We were doing our jog when I spied a seal high up on the dune. It was a small one compared to some of the giants that we saw at the Pope's Eye. For some reason it was trying to get over the top of the dune and into the grass.   Our jogging isn't particularly fast however the closer we got the harder it tried to climb but armed only with flippers and facing a wall of hard sand it kept falling backward.  So then it was a bee line to the water back to the comfort zone as it were. There did not appear to be any injuries. Only the day before we had argued with a dog owner to leash his dog as it was chasing endangered plovers on the same stretch of beach.