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| The sea lion rookery, just offshore. |
When we first arrived in Mendocino on our vacation, since
our room was not ready for check-in we decided to head over to the Point
Cabrillo lighthouse.
As I mention in the
post last week, we learned there was a sea lion rookery nearby, and decided we
would make time for a stop before we left town.
There is a private neighborhood there, so no cars are
permitted down to the beach. However,
there is public parking nearby, and you can walk down the road to public beach
for a look. Although there is a little
work involved to find it, the walk is fairly easy and some climbing on the
bluffs is required.
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| A view of the Point Cabrillo light from the bluffs. |
The sea lions are off shore on a little island there – I took
the photo above from the bluffs to show the island. I think there were probably several hundred
out there on the day we visited. It was
a real treat to see them all.
I Googled to see if I could find additional info. There’s no specific page or Wikipedia
article, but there are plenty of other references to this rookery. I found this very interesting map of the area
on a California agency’s page:
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