Welcome to La Jolla Harbor Seals Beach
at 850 Coast Blvd. La Jolla Ca. 92037
The La Jolla harbor seals are a major San Diego area attraction bringing over 100,000 monthly visitors to the coastal shores of La Jolla to get up close and watch these ocean mammals.
The Casa Beach is widely recognized as a home for harbor seals which take advantage of the large sea wall to relax and give birth to pups in the winter.
Home of "Seal Beach" and the largest group of seals on the Southern California coastline.
Seal Beach San Diego attracts over 100,000 monthly visitors to La Jolla and the La Jolla San Diego coastline.
When it comes to beautiful places to see and visit in San Diego, La Jolla is very high on the list. With a colorful small 10 square block downtown that rivals places like Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, this quiet coastal community is tucked away right on the ocean in San Diego.
La Jolla has about 2 1/2 miles of sidewalks and trails that go along the downtown area. This is the home of the famous "Childrens Pool", where mass numbers of sea lions relax and spend the day. It is a very popular place for tourists to visit and is well known in the area as one of the very few sea lion refuges in San Diego.
Come spend an afternoon with us in "The Jewel" of San Diego.
(The spanish translation of La Jolla is "the jewel".)
Map of La Jolla Childrens Pool below
850 Coast Blvd
La Jolla, CA 92037-4254, US
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Help us save the seals at Casa Beach in La Jolla!
Casa Beach in La Jolla, California (a neighborhood of the city of San Diego), is the home to a rookery of harbor seals that is beloved by local children, adults, and thousands of visiting tourists. Hundreds of local businesses have stated that the presence of the seals is beneficial to the La Jolla economy, and La Jolla's own tourist brochures endorse a visit to watch the seals and their pups on the beach as a popular tourist activity.
But a tiny group of people, motivated by greed and ignorance, has decided to endorse a destructive dredging of the beach, under the spurious notion that the seals "pollute" the area with their presence. This dredging would to drive the seals away permanently and would make it exclusively for human use, despite the fact that San Diego is full of other beaches for humans and Casa Beach is the only harbor seal rookery in Southern California. The Save-our-Seals Coalition, composed of animal protection and environmental groups and concerned citizens, has been fighting these efforts every step of the way.
The City of San Diego tried to protect the colony by placing a rope guideline informing the public about the safe distance from the seals. Unfortunately, a swimmer, Valerie O’Sullivan, sued the City of San Diego (of which La Jolla is a part) and won a ruling in 2005 from a now retired state court judge ordering the city to dredge the sand on which the seals rest to return it to its 1931 condition as a "bathing pool." The judge ordered the City to remove the rope and awarded O’Sullivan’s lawyer, Paul Kennerson, a shocking sum of 1.3 milliondollars in attorney’s fees.
The City appealed the ruling all the way up to the California Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case. Now under the direction of Superior Court Judge Yuri Hoffman, the city is being forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to carry out the dredging project.
The only seal rookery in Southern California south of Ventura county
is at risk of being destroyed!
Visit http://www.sealwatchsandiego.org/ and www.lajollaseals.com
for more information on helping to keep the seals in La Jolla
Photos by S. Callahan for www.La-Jolla-California-Online.com
and www.PacificBeachOnline.com and www.SoCalBeachesMagazine.com
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