Yesterday went the other direction and hiked the trails above and along the beach, there are "Beware of Bears" signs posted so I clapped my hands and yelled "Hey bear bear bear" as I went along my merry way, no one was there but me but if anyone heard me I would have felt "silly". Got out to the cliffs and beaches and stayed back for undercuts are likely, no way to see if they are there or not. The wind gusts were mind-blowing and so much fun. I scoped out the tree conditions and stayed clear of broken limbs and figured even though these gust are strong to me, they are a 'day in the park" to these rugged trees.
I saw squall after squall out on the horizon amidst sun breaks. A major black squall was headed my way so I high-tailed it back to the truck exactly in time. I had to push on my door to get it to open as the wind was so intense, then once inside there came hail just pooring down. It passed in minutes and the sun was out again. totally cool!
So, this is what it has come to, I have been alone for 2.5 weeks with very few conversations with humans; a seagull flew over my head and I spoke sweetly to it as it passed by and it made an immediate about-face and landed at my side about 6 ft away. So, we held a long one-sided conversation. Of course I knew he just wanted to use me as a lunch stop so I gave him a healthy organic cranberry oatmeal bar. We were buddies for a moment in time.
My Buddy
So we trek up a path and see the "girls" up on the shore rocks sunning themselves. The "boys" were all out in the surf making the loud noise...it's "sex talk" in sea lion language. The girls did not appear to be impressed. 
We trek farther up the path into a strong wind...to where we heard there were many, many critters. Turns out there was about a mile of sea lions beached. Unfortunately, the wind was coming into faces and the smell was nearly toxic. 
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