The Stellars have company

In the days surrounding Thanksgiving of 2009, something unusual happened to the Sea Lions on Pier 39 in San Francisco, California.

They disappeared.

I read about this phenomenon in November, and remember making a comment to Veronica that they probably came up to the Sea Lion Caves, in Haceta Head, Oregon. Veronica, of course, poo-pawed that notion. Well, as it turns out, I was right. Of the 1700 that made the San Francisco docks their home, only 20 Sea Lions stayed behind. The others swam the 500 mile journey north, where, in December, they started showing up by the hundreds.

San Francisco dock at Pier 39, must assuredly be eerie now as after decades of echoing-barks through the foggy bay, it has fallen atypically silent.

The Sea Lions appear to have made the journey because of the abundance of anchovies; so plentiful, in fact, that even the pelicans are hanging around.

 Excuse me but how did the Sea Lions know about the anchovies?

 Keith says they must have gotten a Text.

Photographic images of Pier 39 before and after,
 taken off the Internet -

Photographer unknown to this writer

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