Sea Lions Mysteriously Disappear From Pier 39.. (Earthquake Coming?)

Yahoo News ^ | December 28th, 2009

[TaraP]

Sea Lions Mysteriously Disappear From Pier 39 Mon Dec 28, 5:47PM PT - CBS 5 San Francisco 2:26 |

Following a record sized herd, hundreds of sea lions have suddenly disappeared from San Francisco's Pier 39 and have been gone for a month. Joe Vazquez reports

Video....

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Killer Whales move in close?

[NormsRevenge]

FRom over 1900 to only a few seen here in recent days.

They moved to Oakland.. or Sounds like they are out fishing is the best guess.. but ya never know.

[buccaneer81]

(Earthquake Coming?)

Probably more like "Anchovies Going."

[Never on my watch]

“So long and thanks for all the fish”

[TaraP]

Web cam here..

http://www.pier39marina.com/sealions.htm

[T. Jefferson]

Michael Moore standing on the river bank drooling couldn’t have helped.

[JoeDetweiler]

They can’t find jobs........even they know the economy has gone to hell. Probably moved to Texas.

[o_zarkman44]

They all went Delta Smelt fishing.

[TaraP]

Lunar eclipse Dec 31.

Lunar perigee (closest approach to earth) Jan 1. Earth perihelion (closest approach to sun) Jan 3. [link to www.lunarplanner.com]

5 sunspots popping on sun right now. [link to spaceweather.com]

Nearby gamma ray burst on 12/21. [link to grb.sonoma.edu]

[johnnyjumpstart]

Supposedly animals can predict earthquakes......so, I’m wondering if they know the BIG ONE is about to hit San Francisco & have thus moved out of town!

[norge]

The sea lions moved in to Fishermas’s Wharf just after the Loma Prieta earthquake, Oct. 17, 1989 (the one that delayed the World Series.

They took over docks where they had never been before, and they’ve been there ever since, sometimes in larger numbers than before. But they have never gone away completely.

That’s why the fuss.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile....

Mt Redoubt alert raised to Yellow

[Hot Tabasco]

So the record size herd was a surprise arrival and now their departure is another surprise...........Oh boy, there just ain't no pleasing nobody.........

No offense to you California FReepers, but here's hoping for the big one..........

[jwparkerjr]

Haven’t they had some pretty weird weather out there the last month or so? I’m all the way across the country and down the continent from there but seems to me there have been a couple of really potent storms come ashore there then make their way ‘cross country. I would expect them to behave differently if the weather was really different. I know in our areas the manatees all head for the power plants when the waters in the bays get cold. If the weather was really rough or cold seems they would head for someplace warmer and quieter.

[TaraP]

That too! GONE!

[Second Amendment First]

“So long and thanks for all the fish”

LOL

[Right Wing Assault]

Mexican feast?

[SoldierDad]

Salmon have all disappeared and sealions leaving to find other food?

[Molon Labbie]

Carcharodon Megalodon?

[Snurple]

Sea Lions Mysteriously Disappear From Pier 39..

Bush has them all...in his bath tub.

[Revolting cat!]

Bush’s fault!

[Snurple]

Bush did that too.

[TaraP]

The deserted piers, once covered with sea lions, are now empty. The sea lions have disappeared from Pier 39 in San Francisco, where there once were hundreds on the end K dock, baffling biologists and disappointing tourists

[montag813]

They’re probably just having seal circle parties at seal bathhouses. Just pour some amyl nitrate in the water and they’ll be fine.

[Palladin]

Big earthquake coming.

Obama will blame it on Bush.

[Revolting cat!]

Glow bull worming!

[newnhdad]

Got some sense.. The taxes were too high for them.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

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[mewzilla]

Whoa.

Ruh roh.

[ntmxx]

More like California salmon run…

[Palladin]

Interesting!

(BTW, I love your tagline!)

[VRWC For Truth]

Maybe they flew Southwest.

[HerrBlucher]

Animals don’t “predict” earthquakes however they can, I suspect, sense small motions in the earth’s crust that are the precursor to a quake. This is hours or maybe a day before the event though. The sea lions probably boogied because of Orcas.

[SierraWasp]

Isn’t there a guy in the bay area named Jim Kirtland, or something like that, that’s been quite good at predicting using animal behavior, tidal charts and the moon’s apogee and perigee charts. He literally reads the paper for any increase in lost animal notices in the want ads as an indicator of predictive animal behavior.

[ninergold3]

Very cool link - thanks. I grew up in So. San Francisco and remember the sea lions well. It didn’t matter what time of year you went to Pier 39 - there were tons (pun intended) of sea lions hanging around. Odd.

[TaraP]

Meanwhile Dead Whales on the Beach Dead whales lie on the beach at Farewell Spit on New Zealand's South Island December 28, 2009. More than 100 pilot whales died after being stranded at Farewell Spit, according to local media. The beached whales were discovered by a tourist plane on Saturday. REUTERS/New Zealand Department of Conservation/Handout Poisonous Seas...

[garyhope]

I lived in SF with Ex #2. I don’t care if SF and the Ex. fall in the ocean. Screw the seals too.

[NormsRevenge]

Hmmmm.. Like I said, ya never know. ;-)

[Snurple]

I don’t care if SF and the Ex. fall in the ocean. Screw the seals too.

Bush made you feel that way.

[ItsForTheChildren]

My wife and I were there when the first ones showed up in January of 1990 (a trip for our 10th wedding anniversary). I can't believe they've been there all this time!

So long and thanks for all the fish.

Perfect!

[NormsRevenge]

Jim is still around, he does Coast to Coast with George Snorey from time to time.

Bet he gets a chuckle out of this one.. mass ‘disappearances’ like this don’t come along every day.

[Aroostook25]

0bama’s fault!

[Auntie Dem]

Following a record sized herd, hundreds of sea lions have suddenly disappeared from San Francisco's Pier 39 and have been gone for a month. Joe Vazquez reports

Free beer in Santa Cruz?

[Churchillspirit]

No offense to you California FReepers, but here's hoping for the big one....

Sorry, but to wish for the deaths of your fellow FReepers is offensive - or do you think the 'quake will be selective and spare certain folks?

[incredulous joe]

It is a “historical” and “unprecedented” disappearance of Sea Lions whicn he “inherited”.

[The Comedian]

Sea Lion benefits being paid in Schwarzenegger High-value Indeterminate Treasury scrip. They can't buy fish with the IOUs so they moved to Colorado.

The good news is Feinstein is up to be sacrificed to the Bay Area volcano and earthquake transvestite Gaia deity.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Right Wing Assault]

San Francisco’s fault?

[freedumb2003]

Just got back from a leisurely drive up the coast.

Plenty of sea lions at Santa Cruz. And the bull elephant seals are still in numbers above San Simeon.

But the local SF press is repeating this story over and over.

[skeeter]

No offense to you California FReepers, but here's hoping for the big one...

I'm as un-PC as a person can be, but this is just a plain stupid thing to say.