Close Encounter with a Baby Sea Lion - Gardner Bay, Espanola Island, Galapagos Islands 11/15/09

A baby sea lion mistakes me for mommy. Must have been the brown bathing suit.

7/10/12 Wow, folks! I forgot about this video for a year or so. So many of you have viewed it, and I've really enjoyed your comments. Apologies to everyone who posted and emailed questions.
Thanks to my sister, I was fortunate enough to take the trip of a lifetime back in November of 2009: a National Geographic/Lindblad cruise through the Galapagos Islands. The ship accomodated 96 vacationers -- it was VERY nice and if you ever have the opportunity you should do it!
On our excursions to the individual islands we were accompanied by trained Ecuadorian naturalists at all times, so I'm confident that we were behaving appropriately. We took care to keep our distance from the wildlife and were told Do Not Touch! This little guy wandered up the beach while it's mother was out getting food. It first approached some adult Sea Lions up the beach a ways who gave it the cold shoulder. Then it headed for our group, and for me in my brown swim suit. I turned 60 this year and don't mind being mistaken for a Sea Lion. It was an honest mistake. :)
Those of you who want to use this clip may do so. Please be nice.
Kristin

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Closed Caption:

hello
that's my foot you lookyou thing
oh my goodness I'm sorry I'm not your
mommy
if I was your mommy I would totally take
care of you
oh my goodness you're so close i can't
even get you in the in the frame
get your picture oh no I know I don't
know your mommy
oh there goes oh it's a cute little butt
you are very very curious ended
yeah it's a film the camcorder oh so how
do you do it
you just look through that part uh-huh
going right now
oh sorry ok we just all just edited
that's what you want to move the top
part of any of you almost are you sorry
you are not so hard to put your hands
off of it
I think he's going to sleep
excuse me
yeah
I'll tell you I just talking we are
going to be subtle visual
I'm sorry
thank you very much
how did you picture myself but look at
how this little thing is scratching
yeah
yeah okay
my goodness
more calm down
oh and there's the magpie
ok hello hello all you keep thing
okay i'm going to stop exploiting you
now