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We're only on our second week of the new year and 2022 is already starting to prove itself as being just as strange as 2021.
San Diego drivers were shocked on Friday morning (January 7) when a sea lion was wandering around a major highway.
According to FOX5, drivers went out of their way to keep the 250-pound male sea lion safe until a SeaWorld rescue crew arrived to take it to safety.
The strange occurrence was reported at 9:40 A.M. in the eastbound lanes of state Route 94, just west of Interstate 805 near the Mount Hope neighborhood, according to a press release from California Highway Patrol.
“We were just trying to keep it from going from one side of the freeway to the other, keep it in the middle,” Leslie Fernandes, one of the drivers who helped herd the sea lion, told FOX5. “Couple of times he got aggressive and tried to come out towards the oncoming traffic.”
According to FOX5, this particular sea lion was a familiar face to the rescue team members.
A Seaworld spokesperson explained that the sea lion had traveled to SR-94 from Point Loma since Thursday, January 6, and had also been in Mission Beach, Mission Bay, and La Jolla earlier that week.
The sea lion had been tagged during its previous rescue.