Sea Lions
Bodega Bay is an interesting place. Everyone seems to know each other, and everyone seems to smoke, drink, and/or do drugs. I guess if you live in such a small place, there’s not much else to do except those three things.
We saw plenty of wildlife when we were there, much more than I usually see when I am at the coast. We saw seals, sea lions, deer, and even a whale. We also saw plenty of birds including pelicans, egrets, herons, osprey, cormorants, you name it we saw it. The birds did not seem to display any sort of killer aggressiveness towards human-kind. When you are in Bodega Bay, you have to say that. This is where they filmed “The Birds”, after all. The did display aggresiveness towards each other and towards the sea lions, but that is something else.
One very cool location is at the Inn at the Tides restaurant. The sea lions hang out right there at the docks, waiting for handouts from the fishermen. I was able to get some great close-ups of them (while my wife was spending lots of money in the gift shop), and also of other birds there.
Here’s another one:
