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Re: Sea lion at the interface
Posted By: Ian Johnston In Response To: Re: Sea lion at the interface (lee)
Date: Friday, 8 October 1999, at 2:32 a.m.
> I don't really think what he did was attacking. There he was in front of
> two of his buddies charging me,then i feel a bump / knock. So I didn't see
> exactly what he did, just where he was 15ft behind me while sprinting. I
> think sea lions have a higher hull speed. Probably one of his cohorts
> tripped him and he fell forward at the last minute. I've heard divers talk
> about charging then 90 degree turn at the last minute.Hi Lee,
I was hiking in Cape Scott Provincial Park this year and mentioned to the park operator (they got rid of the park rangers as a cost cutting measure) that I was thinking of kayaking around from San Joseph Bay to Nels Bight. He said that he had done this several times when he was a park ranger here. He said that as he went past the lighthouse a large group of sealions charged him and turned off at the last second. I had never heard of this before and he jokingly said that it was in response to the fact that in the 1950's the Department of Fisheries and Oceans sent a boat out there with a 50 caliber machinegun on the bow, and pretty much wiped out the sealions!
We sat at the lighthouse and used binoculars to watch 50-60 sealions play on an offshore breaker in the area he said it happened. They would body surf down the wave face and, just as it was about to break over them, they would leap backwards over the wave. Couldn't imagine shooting one, except maybe with a camera.
Ian
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