Comments on: Planning Commission denies year-round rope barrier for La Jolla Children’s Pool

By: Mr, Wizard

Mr, Wizard — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:13:09 +0000

"There are organisations working with transporting back lost animals to their habitat,"
Great they can relocate them to their natural Habitat, the wild ! this is man made.

"Construction technology has also evolved over the past 70 years you know"
Great, you can pay for the cost of this new technology, 70 k in 1931 is now several millions today….

The location of the Life Guard Station is crucial as it has a 270 degree view of the beaches north and south. and is maned all year round.

This was never the seals home until the mid 90's when Sea World released all of there rehabilitated seals their, thanks to Mayor Susan Golding…

I am not selfish !, I can share the beach as the seals share it with us, they have never left, and must not mind us as they are still here and trust us so much that they will have their pups and leave their new born for us to watch over while mommy goes to look for food……..

The solution is simple, get rid of the seal activist who cause, incite and disrupted the peace and harmony their, and everyone get use to sharing the beach. we will have a full time city Ranger and Docents very soon !

The California Costa Commission will not allow this public trusted beach to be closed. The National Marine Fisheres Service are the only ones who are authorized to create a Marine Mammal park.

By: cyberKICK

cyberKICK — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:51:00 +0000

The seals are on the rocks, the other side of the wall, in Point Loma, OB, all along the beachs under the bluffs where it is difficult for people to go, in the open ocean (biologically speaking, seals do not ever need to come ashore– they can sleep in the water, and many seals migrate and spend months at sea), and on many islands. This breed of seal is the most populous, not endangered, not threatened, not even depleated. The biodiversity you are talking about is being eaten by them as we have taken their natural predators away. There have never been so many. To say they don't live anywhere else is wrong. The experts in the field ran a study, and each day it is different seals at this beach. This beach was supposed to be protected against being overrun and run down. Now you want to build a new one for the exact same purpose with the same promises as this one. Well, we already have one, and shouldn't need to build a new one just because you want to repurpose this one. Build a new one and put seals on it… that would be more fair.

By: K n' K

K n' K — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:40:12 +0000

There are no guarantees, but then we have at least one spot for them and one for us. They can have the old pool, where they are protected, and we have the other one, where people come frequently and the pool itself is costructed in a way that is less "seal-friendly". There are organisations working with transporting back lost animals to their habitat, for eg. bears, cougars, etc. Construction technology has also evolved over the past 70 years you know. Have some faith in it.

There are people with different opinions and we need to find some kind of solution here that works for all of us. This issue has been dragging for so long now and we are all tired of nothing happening. Can you come up with one that doesn't involve removing the seals from the pool?

If the animals wanted to live anyplace else, they would. They don't come to the beach because they enjoy human company.

Would you rather disperse another species from its home so you and me can go for swim ? In my opinion, that is considered selfish. Being able to go for a swim is something you seem to take for granted sir.

I might have had a lot of Kool-Aid, but at least I don't need to boost my opinions with making that kind of statement about someone who does'nt agree with me.

Hope to see a creative solution from your side on the next post.

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:24:00 +0000

I brought my relatives to La Jolla the other day and we visited the pool, we went down to the beach to see the seals and were intercepted by a old woman with short grey hair and told us that the beach was closed because of pregnant seals so we went up top to take some photos and talked to a nice man at a table and we were shocked to here that the old lady lied to us that the beach is in fact open but should not get to close to the seals. One thing I can't stand is someone ling to me, we marched back down and gave her a peace of my mind, and got some wonderful pictures of the seals.

By: Mr, Wizard

Mr, Wizard — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:50:07 +0000

If we do build a new pool for the children, what guarantee do we have that the seals won't move to that one?
It sounds like you drank the cool-aid…The are not 77 beaches in San Diego
This sound like propaganda you drank out of the trough at seal watches table.
There are 77 miles of COAST in SD county… the marine mammals have the whole coast and Islands to live ! So you would rather "Yellow Stone" the seals here on a public beach that there is no way in hell that can be closed, just so you can look at them up close for free ! How selfish…
You really thought this through.