Let me begin my last post of the week with a celebratory theme...Happy Bastille Day to my friends in France. It is Friday and closing in on another weekend so I thought I would end my week of posting on a humorous note..a little something to tickle your funny bone. I recently wrote about a…
Surfers off the coast of Santa Cruz, California, now have to worry about more than bad weather and riptides. That's because an especially ornery southern sea otter is wreaking.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — For the past few summers, numerous surfers in Santa Cruz have been victims of a crime at sea: boardjacking. The culprit is a female sea otter, who accosts the wave riders, seizing and even damaging their surfboards in the process. After a weekend during which the otter’s behavior seemed to grow more aggressive, wildlife officials in the area said Monday that they have decided to put a stop to these acts of otter larceny. “Due to the increasing public safety risk, a team from