Friendly Californians, even the sea lions

[deckofficer]

This was on the local Sacramento news tonight, thought I would share. Kinda like the friendly feral pigs. Share your stories on marine life encounters, could make for an interesting thread.

Adorable Moment an Affectionate Baby Sea Lion Leaps Onto a Boat and Cuddles up to a Passenger Caught - YouTube

[a64pilot]

We have friendly sea creatures her on the right coat too
http://www.wftv.com/videos/news/raw-...-coast/vCZkPS/

[SaltyMonkey]

Both will make your heart beat.
The second will hear your heart beat.
I'll take the first.

[SmartMove]

Forget abouthearing your heart beat, it would have been beating clean out of my chest! I'll take the snuggly sea lion please!

[donradcliffe]

I should have taken a picture of the friendly sea lions sinking the dock in Moss Landing this afternoon.--what pests!

[SaltyMonkey]

You know they are starving now don't you?

Record Numbers of Seals and Sea Loons Are Going Hungry Along Pacific - TIME

[donradcliffe]

Originally Posted by SaltyMonkey

You know they are starving now don't you?

Record Numbers of Seals and Sea Loons Are Going Hungry Along Pacific - TIME

You do know that there are record numbers of sea lions and seals out there this year. Its probably due to the fact that there were massive quantities of baitfish out there so the sea lions and seals reproduced instead of starving last year. So lets stymie nature's solution to the problem and let more starve next year.

[SaltyMonkey]

@donradcliffe be careful what you say out loud though. Sea Lions know where you live.

[captain58sailin]

They certainly do, and they are big smelly and loud. They are cool at a distance, but up close fairly dangerous and obnoxious, they always seem to be in a bad mood too.

[fjwiley1]

a64....the diver should be named "Lucky" because the Great White wasn't hungry enough ...

[SaltyMonkey]

Originally Posted by captain58sailin

They certainly do, and they are big smelly and loud. They are cool at a distance, but up close fairly dangerous and obnoxious, they always seem to be in a bad mood too.

Are talking Sea Lions, or boat owners on CF?

[captain58sailin]

Both.

[a64pilot]

I don't know the diver, but if you listen to his breathing rate, it was calm and collected, he did everything right, sure luck played into it, but this guy knew what he was doing.

No snuggly animal posts? I think the Sea lion was exhausted, I've had birds take refuge on my boat that clearly didn't act normal, you could walk right up to them and they would sleep, even had one sleep in the salon over night right beside us.

[SaltyMonkey]

The pup was exhausted and probably orphaned.