Re: [Paddlewise] Being Run Down by Wildlife

From: Mike Euritt <mike.euritt_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:43:45 -0700
how about smaller, cuter company aboard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTojoKpsQQ



On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:30 AM, John Fereira <jaf30_at_cornell.edu> wrote:

> Bradford R. Crain wrote:
>
>>  Seems like a couple of years ago there was a woman that had a
>> leaping eagle ray land on her.
>>
> I know a guy that was fishing for salmon with a friend in a 19' skiff off
> the coast of California just north of San Francisco.   A full grown sea lion
> jumped out of the water close to the boat a couple of times and on the third
> jump landed *in* the boat with them.  It then proceeded to chase them around
> until it climbed up onto the rear transom and one of them body blocked it
> back into the ocean.  They're best guess was that it was trying to get away
> from a great white.  The were fishing in an area known as the Red Triangle,
> which runs along the coast from just north of Santa Cruz, Ca to Bodega Bay,
> with the point of the triangle at the Farallon Islands just outside the
> Golden Gate bridge.
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