Zoo Day on 360

I know, Em said zoo day starts tomarrow, but I have transformed myself and I want to show off. That is what I love to do, show off all the tricks I can do and make people smile. It took a while, about maybe ten minutes to go through all the animals in my brain and decide. The two animals that I think of most, and have the most photos of are seals and seaguls. I dont really have tricks I do, but seals do love an audience. They are very playful in the wild and in captivity. I actually petted a wild seal one time. We were walking along the beach in Bodega, just at the mouth of the Russion River. We had our two sons, Andy, and Alex and our exchange student daughter with us. It was cold and kinda breezy, but not into full blown freezing beach weather. There were about maybe two hundred, maybe less, I dont know, but a lot, of seals laying together on the beach at the mouth of the river, where it flows into the ocean.  As we approached them, we told the kids, "Dont touch them, they will bite you." We were very quite and cautious as we approached, just wanting to see how close we could get before they started to stir around. We didnt want to disturb their rest. We stayed back from them, just watching for a while. It was amazing just to be that close to them.

For some reason, I very quietly and slowly walked to one of them, and reached out my hand and petted him. As I did this, I was watching his face, to see if he was going to react to me. He was asleep of cource, but could still move pretty quickly. If he did react, and was frightened, he would have biten off my hand, or possibly killed me. If the heard had spooked, they would have all went for the ocean. I would have been killed . I dont know what made me do this. He was so soft, and all at once I could see the horrible people hurting these animals for their fur. I could understand why someone would want it, but couldnt understand someone taking it.  Sometimes God gives us his own special gifts, I think this was one to me.  I would never do this again, that would be pushing my luck.

I do think Seals are a very cute though, and if I could actually transform, I think I would want to be a seal. Wouldnt that be fun to go flying through the water and popping my head up to laugh at myself every once in a while. How fun that would be to twist and turn, see how fast I can go, or just glide as the water goes over my fur. We would all lay on rocks, or beaches. Sometimes, Seals will take over harbors and crowd up on the docks, so boats cant dock. The tourest think its pretty funny, the owners of the docks dont. 

Anyway, this is me as a seal. I hope you like it. I do.