La Jolla Seals Then and Now

This is a picture of seal bay, beg your pardon, 'the childrens pool' when we visited La Jolla

And the picture below is how it used to be

Hmmm, Huge difference

I still have been unable to find out why these seals are being ousted from what is technically their homes

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La Jolla Childrens Pool Seals

I'll confess to you, prior to going to San Diego on a conference, I had no interest in seals, they were just another animal, slippery and shiny.

But during a visit to La Jolla, on a sea front walk [you can't exactly call it a beach] we came across seal bay or what is officially called the childrens pool.

After a few hours of gawping at these marvellous creatures, 3 rather energized but badly sunburnt friends were driven from our seat by the cove by extreme thirst. No where to buy water to drink on this stretch of coast line. We would have happily sat there all day but alas we are only human.

As we walked reluctantly away, we came across a lovely older lady who was obviously talking to passers by but we really could not hear what she was saying above the noise of the crowd

We moved closer and asked, as only a tourist can, what she was on about

Then she burst our little bubble. There are plans to drive away the seals from seal bay.

Hey? But I have just discovered seals..... and they are absolutely beautiful..... and they are not a threat to us in any way and........ so many ands passed back and forth between us three as the planned closure of seal bay [cause that's how we see it] dominated our conversation for the next few hours

As we got back to Mission Bay, we asked a few locals about the planned closure and to our dismay non of the people we spoke to either seemed to be aware or to care

So we decided to start a blog on the seals. Now we probably won't make a big splash in the waters but at least we would have contributed our two cents to saving the la jolla seals

Hello La Jolla San Diego

Many people in the medical world will tell you what a chore some of these medical conferences can be

And often the locations are in parts of the world you never really were interested in visiting

So it was with pleasant surprise for my ECMO team that the ELSO conference was in San Diego this year

And what a blast it was

The sites, the people, La Jolla and the seals

So we did the tourist thing and took a whole bunch of pictures and sunned ourselves to our hearts delight

Oh, and attended the conference which was quite good if anyone was wondering

Anyway a few things occurred while we were in San Diego and we resolved to build a blog about it

Our major concern is actually the plight of the seals at La Jolla bay. I will tell you more about the seals in a later post

For now, this is just to say hello