People are being warned to stay away as elephant seals haul themselves out of the ocean and onto beaches — sometimes in very public areas — to suffer through a natural process called catastrophic . . .
People are being warned to stay away as elephant seals haul themselves out of the ocean and onto beaches — sometimes in very public areas — to suffer through a natural process called catastrophic . . .
“It was probably the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen on this road,” he said in an interview on Tuesday. A grader operator saw the sea lion first and notified Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the body with responsibility for marine mammals. Clarke also contacted the federal department, concerned about the animal being so far from the ocean. Clarke had heard about the sea lion on his way to work, where he monitors the radar station at the old military station on the northwest of Vancouver Island. “He got scared off the road and actually sat up in the woods in the power lines.”
COURTENAY He’s seen elk, deer, bears and cougars during his travels on remote logging roads on Vancouver Island, and now Greg Clarke can add a sea lion to his list. “I came around the corner on my way home and there was a sea lion in the middle of the road,” he told CTV News on Tuesday. Clarke came across the sea lion along the long, twisting road to Holberg on the north end of the island on Monday around 2:30 p.m., and managed to capture the encounter on video. “In the video you can see that he’s hopping towards me and that’s an aggressive posture, basically. He was feeling threatened by my truck so I backed off but at the same time he started coming towards me pretty hard,” Clarke said.