But during the summer of 2018, a rogue sea lion started biting swimmers at Aquatic Park, at the other end of Fisherman's Wharf, and the swimming area was closed for two weeks. Pier 39 has a "sea lion herder" on the docks every day to discourage this.Īre they dangerous to humans? Generally speaking, no, as long as they're not provoked or confronted. The platforms they're lying on were built specially for them, after their weight destroyed the boat dock that was there!ĭo they climb on the other docks at Pier 39? Yes, sometimes they do.
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Plus they can sleep all day on the floating platforms on land, they have to keep moving as the tides change. Why do they hang out at Pier 39? They have a good food supply in SF Bay and their predators, the orcas and Great White Sharks, don't usually come into the bay. Sea lions can stay under water for almost 10 minutes and they can stay out at sea for two weeks.There are around 240,000 of them in California.They can see color, but only in the blue/green area.Sea lions are pregnant for 9 months (!).Their job done, the guys head back to Pier 39 around the end of July. The boys (and most of the Pier 39 sea lions are males) head down to Santa Barbara in Southern California in May or June to mate with the female sea lions, who spend most of the year down there in the Channel Islands. Where did they all go? Visitors coming to San Francisco in June and July are often surprised to find the sea lions missing in action, or just a few stragglers hanging out on the docks. Now, the numbers of sea lions at Pier 39 typically run from 100 to 600 (when they're there). There used to be a sizable colony out there, but there are hardly any now. Apparently, they moved from Seal Rock, by the Cliff House on the western edge of the city.
Where did they come from? It went from no sea lions at Pier 39 to a thousand in just a few months in 1989. The sounds and smells will tell you where they are! Sea Lions.odd & ends. Where are they? Go all the way to the end of Pier 39, and turn left. Most of the sea lions are sound asleep, but there are always several malcontents in the group that bellow and groan at each other, arguing over a favorite spot on the planks.
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