 | | 07/06/2019 22:57
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Oh, Just a Park Dedicated to a Famous Sea Lion
As mentioned earlier, Catalina is full of unique stories, but perhaps one of the most unique is the fact there is a park dedicated to a sea lion. Yes, a sea lion. Just after you disembark from the Catalina Express, you walk along the edge of the harbor past a bronze statue of a sea lion, who has his very own park, Old Ben Park. So, just who was Old Ben? And why does he have a park named after him?
In the late 1800s, local fishermen were known to dump inedible fish into the harbor of Avalon. Such an act would not go unnoticed by the other sea life, and soon it enticed a large colony of sea lions. In 1898 the patriarch, a massive sea lion weighing in at over...
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