Heading South and Seal day

This will go down as one of the cooler days that we've had.  Grandma came back the night before to stay with us as her friend's daughter had a new baby.  I joined them and we headed down to La Holla by San Diego to see the seals. We took the Coast highway to drive through the other little towns that we have not been through yet. Crazy how many little beach towns there are. Stopped in one little town(forgot it's name already) to have a picnic on the beach,

After some searching, we found what we thought was the seal beach.  Took some pictures and spent a fair amount of time  exploring the area looking at stuff in the close by tide pools.  Also learned from a diver, there is a movement out here to ban almost all fishing within 3 miles of the coast - that would pretty much ruin all of the marinas and tourism business.  That is one of the things you hear where you scratch your head and ask where is the common sense in this world - then you remember you are in CA!

Seals and a Sea Lion - first stop

Soph and I checking out some tide pools

Soph and her hermit crab

video of small crab eating - we thought this was very cool

So then we left - Amy still thinking that we were not at the right place.  We drove a little farther up and found the place they call the "kids pool"  I guess this used to be a pool sometime back and the seals have taken it over.  At first we didn't see any, but decided to get out of the car anyway and found there were a bunch in water.  Walked down to the beach and what happened next was pretty amazing.

You could walk on the beach and take pictures/video of them swimming around.

Evan taking video with the tablet.

Then - they all decided to come on shore - there were like 20 of us there watching.

Mom and Soph - up close and personal