Dive Into Your Imagination

Charge! Sea Lions are so fun to swim with! The juveniles come out in numbers to play and swim with snorkelers and scuba divers. In the pinniped family, sealions are mammals. Like little kids, they want to play all day long. They will swim right up to you and open their mouths and mimic you by blowing bubbles.

Many people confuse the sealions and seals. They are both pinnipeds and marine mammals with fur, flippers and fins. Two distinct differences between the two you can notice are sealions have external ears and use their flippers on land for walking around. Sealions live around the world in temperate waters from Australia to Africa, Galapagos to California. Sealions use their flippers on land to drag their bodies up cliffs!

They have whiskers like cats and use them for feeling. A sealion uses his whiskers to help him hunt. As he swims underwater he can detect and feel a fish swimming in the water. They usually feed on their own, yet they are social animals. In some sealion rookeries there are hundreds of animals living together mating, pupping, feeding and playing!

When lucky enough to dive with sealions they want to play with you. Sometimes they come right up and pose for a picture, and then in a blink of an eye, they are out of there. The sealions in the bottom photo are two or three years old. Female sealions nurse their young when first born. They call out to one another and learn what they sound like. The juveniles that are two and three years old will often continue to try and nurse until they become adolescents. Diving with large schools of sealions is the best!

If you swim near reefs, don't touch or break off the corals. Also, don't buy jewelry made from coral.

DOLPHINS AND TURTLES COLLECTION cute dolphins and turtles.

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PLAY PLAY Life is a game everyday! Sea lions, Channel Islands, California

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