'Confused but also not surprised, it is the coast after all'
An absurdly lost California sea lion startled commuters on Vancouver Island Sunday before eventually slipping away into the waters of a nearby lake.
“In the summer months it’s common to see pinnipeds in the Kennedy Lake area. Sometimes basking on the rocks nearby,” he said, before adding that seeing a marine mammal on the highway is “very unusual." He said DFO believes the sea lion found its way to the Kennedy Lake boat launch and propelled itself roughly half-a-kilometre to the highway from there.
He said the first people to report the animal said they initially mistook it for a bear, a much more common sight on local roadways.
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