Sea Lion or Seal?

At first glance, we didn’t realize this was a sea lion (or seal?) floating by.

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Hoping this fella is feeling well and just enjoying the last evening of Spring. We caught these photos just in front of Emma Schmitz Memorial View Point.

Comments

  1. Probably a Pacific harbor seal.

  2. The photo is of a sea lion, most likely a California Sea Lion (hard to tell for sure from the photo). The sea lion is “sailing” – a behavior that is used to regulate their body temperature.

  3. Robin Donnelly says

    Wow, I just saw a HUGE one of these floating by my house at Roche Harbor and went out to investigate in my kayak. I thought it might be dying. Quite the show. He sank as I came near, but I could see it was a sea lion. Not too many of them up here.

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