Re: [Paddlewise] Being Run Down by Wildlife

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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