A Covina Fish in Paradise

I had an especially lovely, wonderful walk this morning. It was a super dense fog morning, not as thick as it was that day a few weeks ago, but the air was white and richly moist with very limited visibility and a gorgeous halo effect around the sun.

There were the usual birds: noisy seagulls, fidgety shorebirds with all their adorable fuzzy little baby chicks, and also some pelicans doing a delightful flyby over the ocean out just above where the waves begin to grow.

But the greatest treat of all this morning: two seals swimming and gorging on fish just 10 to 20 feet offshore. One of them was so close I seriously could have ran out and touched it and possibly not even gotten my shirt wet. It was rather high tide which means the sandy shoreline descends at a pretty quick slant into the ocean, hence the reason the seals were able to swim so close to the shore, and okay, maybe I would have gotten my shirt wet.

At first I had only seen one of them and I was afraid that it might be sick or in distress since it's so unusual to see a seal so up close like that. Paulina, a morning regular, jogged towards me & stopped for a moment to talk about the seals, which I now saw that there were two of them. She assured me that they were fine and said that they eat the Corvina fish (I thought she said Covina fish - I grew up in Covina LOL!) which eat the sand crabs and that's why they were so close to shore. It was like a seal buffet!

As usual, the beach was none too crowded (just how I like it!)and most of us who were there remarked to each other about the seals and shared our enjoyment of them and the beautiful foggy morning as we passed each other and then continued on alone on our peaceful, solitary walks.

Lastly, just to mention, a girl/woman/lady I often see who in my mind I refer to as Tracy Nelson (actress & daughter of Ricky Nelson) introduced herself as Stephanie, but I still prefer to think of her as Tracy Nelson. Is that bad?