Seal Nap

Harbor Seal Napping on the beach. If there is one thing seals and sea lions like to do, it's nap. This seal is no exception!

2 Down, One to Go!

Harbor Seal, La Jolla, CA. It's pupping season again and the harbor seals are out on the beach. They are soooo cute, especially when they're still furry. There's a big lawsuit going on with some people trying to kick the seals out of "children's pool" so the kids can swim again. Now, I'm all for kids swimming but there are all sorts of beaches in San Diego and all sorts of swimming pools and just one tiny little beach with seal pups. I wonder if Santa can deliver a lawsuit verdict in favor of the seals?

Meanwhile, I just finished my second final for this semester. One more to go tomorrow night. Cross your fingers for me. This one's going to be tough.

Baby Harbor Seals

There is a little beach in La Jolla called the Children's Pool; aka., the seal beach. It is the only beach in San Diego (that I know of anyhow) where you can see wild harbor seals up close. They pup there and generally hang out all year round. One can only imagine that seals used to live like this on beaches all up and down the coast before the Sunbathers took over the place. Either way, it's an incredible opportunity to teach kids and adults alike a little more about nature. However, there is a contingent of La Jolla residents who would prefer the beach be "seal-free" so that the kids would have one more place to swim. Now, I happen to think that the kids, especially rich La Jolla kids, have lots of places to swim but only one place to see wild seals. In any case, it's a huge commotion in the city. Some guy is suing to force the city to dredge out the pool and scare off the seals. The conservationists are suing to have the marine mammal protection act enforced. What a zoo (no pun intended)! As for me, I'm taking all the seal pictures I can while they're still there.