More Californians invading Oregon
Carla Axtman
But did they leave their hearts in San Francisco, at least?
Apparently, the latest onslaught from California isn't of the homo sapien variety, however. Instead, members of the Otariidae family, also known as sea lions, are flocking to the Oregon Coast from San Francisco:
Hundreds of sea lions that abruptly blew out of San Francisco Bay's Pier 39 last Thanksgiving have apparently found a new home at another tourist attraction — 500 miles north on the Oregon coast.Thousands of California sea lions started showing up in December at Sea Lion Caves, a popular tourist draw because of the Stellar sea lions living in the caves.
The California sea lions appear to have made the trip because of an abundance of anchovies at the Oregon site, 11 miles north of the town of Florence.
A biologist at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport says that scientists started noticing an uptick in sea lions in December. Apparently their food sources in California are dying off.
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Jan 11, '10
Oh, just great. Now they are going to come up here and decimate our fisheries as well. Please go back to California and take some of the two-legged ones back with ya.
Jan 11, '10
If the sea lions from San Francisco prove to be a problem it will be minor compared with the anti-tax ideology that was spawned in California in the late 1970s and took hold with its infamous Proposition 13 and has invaded Oregon. There are times when we should oppose some taxes, but to be reflexively negative to any and all taxes is absurd. In the case of California it has proved to be a disaster.
10:32 a.m.
Jan 11, '10
A clear cut case of out-of-state sea lion douchebaggery..........
10:43 a.m.
Jan 11, '10
Pat: It's the anchovies. Pier 39 in San Francisco and Mark Nelson were distributing fake herring and the sea lions bolted for the real anchovies of Oregon.
Jan 11, '10
Where's the Tom McCall of sea lions when you need him?
Jan 11, '10
You guys make me laugh.
10:53 a.m.
Jan 11, '10
Ya know?
Just as general recommendation to all parties, next time you're in the area, definitely take the time to go to the Sea Lion Caves. It is as close as you'll get to seeing these guys in their natural setting.
The California contingent will be the ones in the Vuarnet sunglasses eating their anchovies on pita bread with sun dried tomatoes.........
Jan 11, '10
They are a pain when crabbing in Newport. They go for the bait and scare the crabs off so we have to use bait they don't like (chicken, turkey). Unfortunately the crabs don't like that bait as much.
Jan 11, '10
Overheard this week in the Sea Lion Caves on the central Oregon coast:
"What you Oregonians need is a sales tax"
Jan 11, '10
Lounging around like a bunch of fat lazy Democrats on welfare. <img src="http://images.travelpod.com/users/missmizon/1.1254618804.sea-lions-at-pier-39.jpg"></img>
Jan 11, '10
"A Prairie Home Companion" was in San Fransisco this past weekend and Guy Noir investigated the sea lions leaving the bay. The tourist commission hired Guy to get them back which he accomplished with a tenor singing Nessun dorma underwater :)
Jan 11, '10
Be careful surfing and diving, friends. The great whites will follow the pinnepeds ahead of season, possibly bringing the females too, instead of just the post-mating males that migrate north while the females go south to pup.
http://www.sharkresearchcommittee.com/pacific_coast_shark_news_2009.htm
11:22 p.m.
Jan 11, '10
Garry, I have to thank you for a rare laugh-out-loud-while-bloggin' moment.
Jan 13, '10
They're here for the lower taxes. They'll go home after the ballots are counted.
Jan 16, '10
Glad to see less of the "Go Home Outsiders" attitude. Did it occur to any of those devotees that attitude may be connected to why more commerce doesn't locate here, why our unemployment is sky high, why "The State of Black Oregon" has statistics in it that would make Alabama blush?
If we're all "Americans", then we should try to harmoniously incorporate the best of all of us, and work to change for the better the situations that keep the least of us in perpetual misery. Oregon has the second highest child hunger rate in the United States, the second highest unemployment, some of the worst schools, etc. etc.
<h2>Can OUR state really afford this isolationist mentality any longer?</h2>