Nothing prepares you for mating like a seafood buffet. Effectively, at the least should you’re a sea lion.
A large faculty of anchovy within the San Francisco Bay has lured roughly 1,700 sea lions to Pier 39 close to town’s Fisherman’s Wharf district. Not because the early Nineteen Nineties has the world seen this many sea lions, Sheila Candor, Harbormaster at Pier 39, told the Associated Press. In current many years, lower than a thousand sea lions flopped onto the pier every spring.
Pier 39 is a sea lion relaxation cease of types, a spot to replenish on anchovies and herring earlier than heading south to the Channel Islands for mating season. The pier docks use thrice the floatation assist as regular docks to assist the burden of the blubbery sea beasts.
In case you’re planning to go to this 12 months’s herd of sea lions, put together for a refrain of loud barking and frequent shows of sun-basked lounging and fin-slap bickering. And should you can’t make it to San Francisco, take pleasure in these photographs we collected.
