Sea lion defenders held a community building vegan faux fish fry and sea lion party in the Columbia gorge today. Mother nature smiled on the event. On the way up we could see that spring had brought new life into the world again. The trees are all leafing out in tender green again, and the salmon are churning up into the river again. With them, as always, have come the sea lions and the osprey and the eagles and all the others who awaken and return with the spring. Thanks to everyone who turned out! I will let the pictures speak louder than the words.
Watching salmon demonstrating how hard it is to get through the dam.
Sea Lion Defenders take over the visitor's center while Cat speaks
Salmon make awesome background for Cat's Talk
Matt Rossell from NW In Defense of Animals addressing the gathering
Matt talking community building
Tre Arrow plays sweet music
Sticker on Cool Bus
Sea Wolf One, Mobile Monitoring Station
Inde with eyes OPEN
Another view of the Sea Wolf (That's sparkling water....)
Gentle reminder from Tre re bringing & reusing our OWN utensils and containers
Grin
Felix kept flying around all over
Matt and Felix dance
Beautiful Cascadia
Funny Grrrl
Showing off Piratitude
Singing up a storm
Put this one on the IDA calendar
Escorting away an important guest
Tiago enjoying the picnic too
More music
Boarding the bus for home
Smile for the camera
Rockin on the way home
No I mean REALLY rockin!
I just really want to thank everyone who turned out to this event. You all rock!
homepage: http://sealiondefensebrigade.org
phone: (503)568-6955
address: Sea Wolf One, Banks of the Columbia river, Republic of Cascadia
I learned a lot about sea lions and salmon. I loved the music and the food, and I think we should have many more events like this. I met some new people and I feel a growing energy to do something to make this better. Thank you to everyone who put this together.
What fun! Finally a day to be happy and celebrate all the good work we are doing together. Cheers to the cheerleaders and my compliments to the chefs. Did everyone remember to shower when they got home, due to the poison oak?
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