Rescued sea lion…
We were taking our San Diego Sunday walk in La Jolla and we spotted a lot of folks down below on the cliffs, a Sea World rescue truck nearby, some sea lions down below on the rocks… and one sea lion with a large cut on her back.
The following is what happened next:
Everyone was staying away from the sea lions…
The sea lion on the far right seemed to be injured…
One of the Sea World employees circled behind the injured sea lion…
They caught the injured sea lion in a large net…
They tried to calm the injured animal..
They used a second net as a lid over the capture net…
They twisted the capture net closed and put the handle of the second net through the capture net as a extra lifting device…
All the time the captured sea lion was trying to bite its rescuers…
They got the injured animal onto the lift gate of the truck…
Job well done! Off to the sea lion hospital…
The Sea World crew were fast and efficient, rescuing the injured sea lion with a minimum of stress to the animal, and in a few weeks the injured animal will be returned to the wild. The applause of the crowd was a good end to the story.