Sunny Seattle

Laura Domela — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:33:20 +0000

It was a gorgeous day again in the city today. I worked all morning (and watched my buddy the sea lion), and then this afternoon I took a break and walked up to the market to grab some lunch and a few things. I stopped at Beecher's Handmade Cheese get some cheese (we're currently hooked on "No Woman"), and then did a little walking and shopping for some miscellaneous things I needed.

I returned to the boat by way of the Public Market to stop and get another dozen oysters for dinner. (Kevin returns from a business trip tonight, so I'll be shucking them all for myself. Don't worry though, we'll get more tomorrow!)

I got back to the boat and chatted with some fellow Nordic Tug owners over from Bremerton (Hi Charlie and Sharon!) and then got back to the boat to find my buddy the sea lion, still lounging around here in the harbor. It's now after 5:30pm…he's going on 10 hours (at least) of lounging around eating fish. Rough life!

I just heard a particularly loud breath and looked out to see him about 5 feet from the back of the boat. I snapped, but it was too low light and too quick to set my camera up properly, so here's more blurry wildlife for you:

I think he's bigger than I originally thought…he's probably about 10 feet long, and HUGE. I said "hi" to him. I think this was him saying "hi" back.

Sea Lion in the City

Laura Domela — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:34:29 +0000

This morning I got up and walked back to my computer to start work (standing height at the back counter) and as I took at look at the city from the back window I noticed something floating in the water. It was big and my first thought was “whale” (probably because there was recently a dead gray whale found underneath some pilings right near here). But there’s also a ton of debris that floats into this little harbor…probably it’s a lost fender or something. I got my Nikon out with the long lens and what do you know! Turns out it was the fin of a giant sea lion.

Pretty soon the sea lion came up for a lazy snarfy breath and then went back to fishing.

This guy is about 8 feet long! I took a few photos from the back of the boat, and then walked out on the dock (in my slippers) to get a better view.

He was curious and came right over to check me out, listened to my camera click, and then went back to fishing:

Looking back at Airship from the dock across the way:

This was at around 8am, and I was out there for maybe an hour watching him and taking photos, and it’s now 11:30am and he’s STILL out there. I hear his big steamy breaths right from the boat. There must be a LOT of fish at the entrance to the marina this morning!

sea lions – Riveted

Sunny Seattle

Sea Lion in the City