SUMMER WALKER photo
Thirteen-year-old visitor Summer Walker was at Charley Young Beach around 9:30 a.m. Thursday when two Hawaiian monk seals silently rose out of the water, played together for about three minutes and then disappeared. “It was weird,” said Summer, who will be in the 8th grade this fall in Newport Beach, Calif. “It was really cool.” She said swimmers and paddleboarders who were in the water just a few feet away didn’t even notice the seals, but everybody on the sand did. Her father, Trent Walker, said locals told him how unusual the exhibition was, and he urged Summer to submit the pictures to The Maui News. Summer was shooting with her dad’s Canon 30D camera, which she had bugged him to let her use. “I told her she could after she had read the manual,” he said. “She read it all.”
