Here in the bay there was this colony of Steller Sea Lions on one outcropping. The name "Steller" does not refer to stars but to the naturalist Georg Steller who first described them in 1741. They are an endangered species with declining numbers in the Aleutian Islands particularly.
The sea lions migrate southward in winter. On these rock cliffs were hundreds of birds also spending the summer.
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