postcard from america

Pier 39 – San Francisco

Who would have thought that sea-lions had so many collective nouns?

  1. A bob of sea lions
  2. A colony of sea lions
  3. A crash of sea lions
  4. A flock of sea lions
  5. A harem of sea lions  ………….. a group of females with one male
  6. A herd of sea lions
  7. A hurdle of sea lions
  8. A pod of sea lions
  9. A raft of sea lions
  10. A rookery of sea lions
  11. A team of sea lions

Which is your favourite?

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Heyjude

I have lived in the UK for most of my life, but when young I definitely had wanderlust and even ended up living in South Africa for several years which was a wonderful experience. I now look forward to a long and leisurely retirement doing what I like most - gardening, photography, walking and travelling.

34 thoughts on “postcard from america”

  1. I always wanted to visit San Fran. It looks very serene for Pier 39. Think it might be busier these days? 🙂 🙂

    1. As I mentioned to Pete, we were there in February and it was always quiet at that time of year. Well, quiet for a major city. And this was not that long ago – 2012.

        4. If you look at the last page in your posts then you’ll see the first date, oddly enough if I look at the stats on Travel Words it says I had visitors in 2011.

          OK Annual site stats provides some interesting facts.
          2013 = 95 posts and 1303 comments
          2014 = 241 posts and 6858 comments
          2015 = 212 posts and 9903 comments (Bench challenge year, fewer posts but obviously more interaction)
          2017 = 81 posts and 2160 comments.

          You get a LOT more comments, but I suppose I do have three blogs on the go.

    2. Just by coincidence I’ve been looking at old pictures of SF and Pier 39, and yes, Jo, it can be very busy there. But still worth visiting, I think. Btw, we did a really touristy thing in SF last year, the bus tour (in the evening), and we enjoyed it a lot, even if it did get very cold when darkness fell. But it was worth while.
      Back to Pier 39: when we were there, we didn’t see any sea lions! We had to drive up the coast to see them.

      1. I’ve done the hop on, hop off tourist bus on occasion, Pit, if I’ve not had much time. An evening one would be a bit different. 🙂 🙂

    1. I didn’t find these very smelly, but definitely noisy! The smelliest I have had the misfortune to be near to were Cape Fur Seals in Namibia at birthing time. I had to breathe through my mouth! What a stench!

  4. Hey! You’ve cheated and added some sealion ‘facts’. I could have missed them if I didn’t come back looking for your Square today. 😦

    1. Well, SOMEONE, complained last week that I wasn’t providing enough information, so I thought I’d add a bit to the post (they are all scheduled so up before I am 😀 )

  5. A harem, hey? Love it. I think a “Raft” is the best – when I visited they were all piled on top of each other on Little raft-like things on the water’s edge and in the water. “Raft” brings back fond memories of that trip.

    1. Raft is a great one. They do seem to like piling up. I saw a ‘Harem’ in San Diego. Must fish that photo out 😉

  9. Great post (and photo) Jude. I’ve got to go with “hurdle” because I can’t quite imagine it and I love mysteries.

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