Marin -- The Marine Mammal Center (#0093)

Not terribly visible due to the caging, but a rescued seal or sea lion. He/she was being transferred to the enclosure while we were there. He/she had been saved and stabilized at another smaller facility further down the coast, but was transferred to the Marin facility for longer term care.

The Center ‘rescues and rehabilitates sick and injured marine mammals’. When I first visited the center some time in the 1980’s it was much less structured and it was possible to walk among the pools where patients were being rehabilitated. While that openness gave a strong sense of the work done at the Center, I’m sure that the close proximity of humans and patients was detrimental to the health of the patients.

www.marinemammalcenter.org