sea lion hijinx

[gregm]

just hear this story from a coworker whose husband works on a 200' fishing boat.

 

somebody walks into his cabin to find a large female sea lion curled up in a basket of laundry. his cabinmate is asleep and when roused appears unconcerned about the sea lion and rolls over to go back to sleep (yeah, who knows). anyway, the sea lion is also pretty unconcerned and basically acting like she owns the place. using brooms they shoo the large beast down the passageway and out onto the deck and over the side. they figure she wanted to get away from orcas and climbed up a gangplank to get ontop the deck and made her way from there.

 

then a little while later they get a radio message from their sister ship miles away describing a very similar incident with a sea lion acting like she owns the place and assume it's the same one.

[lummox]

fucking sea dogs.

[Jim]

I worked a summer on a Japanese troller in the Gulf of Alaska collecting fisheries/sea mammal data. A collegue was on another when they caught a Steller's sea lion (male - big guy) in the net. Rather than dump it in the hatch below and cause havoc they released it on deck - and created havoc. The 1.5 ton animal chased everyone up toward the bridge, and even up the steps. While they closed the door behind them the critter kept banging away at the door while they braced it. It gave up in 20 minutes, waddled across the deck, and slid off the stern.

[Dru]

i was hangin out with some sea lions on the log booms off gambier island on sunday

 

i've had em playing spotter in the water for me on the sea level traverses in lighthouse park too.

[kitten]

When you see one out of the corner of your mask 30 feet under - scares the shit out of you. They can be very friendly and want to play Only they don't know that knocking off your mask isn't the best idea of fun.