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Thanks to the vigilant efforts for earth-loving folk and the Marine Mammal Protection Act that our caring federal government enacted in 1972, the California Sea Lion has been saved from extinction. Imagine what your great grandchildren could have missed out on if the green minds had not prevailed! Now the population of sea lions on the west coast is nearly half a million! Oh, praise Gia.

To show their appreciation of the benevolence of mankind, hundreds of thousands of these two to eight hundred pound balls of love have descended on various harbors along the west coast. Marinas seem to be their favorite hang out now, where they can be close the good-souled people who put conservationism above capitalism in order to save these cute little critters.

Sea lions are now showing love to their sapien counterparts the only way they know how; “trapping people aboard boats, attacking city workers and defecating and vomiting on docks.” Those crazy rascals have also “attacked swimmers, chomped boogie boards and even yanked people off boats.” They also spend the wee hours of the night serenading area residents with their songs of thanks. One resident described the melody: “A barking dog doesn’t hold a candle to this. It’s like 40 barking dogs – in SurroundSound.”

Over a dozen sea lions gathering on the deck of a 37 foot sailboat in Newport Harbor actually swamped the boat and sank it. But that was just their way of giving us a little reminder of how conservation is more important that capitalism. It’s just boat, after all.
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You can read more at the LA Times.